Hi, all- At the risk of burdening the list with yet another one of these, it kinda looked like fun so I thought I'd check in as well. Would have done it sooner, but I've been kicking around in Costa Rica for the last 11 days- got in late Monday night. Nice, warm water!! My name's Todd Miller, I'm 34 years old, and have been boating for about 4 years. Right now, I'm living in central Missouri, but I miss Up North (born and raised in central WI) and hope to return someday. About a year and a half ago, I started whitewater kayaking as well. I enjoy both equally, and I've seen real benefits in my paddling from the crossover between whitewater and sea kayaking. This might seem crazy to a lot of you, but my "combat" roll seems to be much stronger than my pool roll. So I've stopped going to the pool ;-) Right now, I'm paddling a Dagger Meridian. I've had it for about 3 years now, and I'm pretty much ready to get rid of it. I don't know what anyone else on this list has had with Meridians, but I have a ridiculous amount of trouble with it in windy conditions. Not sure what kind of boat I want to move to, but it's a moot point for now- I can't afford it. I'll probably buy another whitewater boat before I pick up a new sea kayak. Or just find a beater canoe to bang around the Ozarks with.... I haven't had time to read through all the "who we are" messages yet (I had close to 500 messages in my inbox last night when I got in), but I'm heartened by the age and experience distribution of those who posted. Most of my whitewater group are either 22 years old or 30-plus with ten or more years of kayaking under their belts. When I first started whitewater paddling, my instructor was a highly talented 17-year-old.... Here's to good paddling in 1999! tm *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 12:28:19 PST
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