On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, John Winters wrote: > And yet we paddle our un - enclosed open canoes every spring on icy rivers > and paddle the ocean in our open canoes while ice bergs dance slowly about > us. The Inuit (sans wet suits etc) paddled their open umiaks in the far, > far north among the bergs. > > If you think you need an enclosed cockpit you may need one. Canoes and Umiaks have much more freeboard than a SOT. I enjoy paddling a canoe amongst the ice chunks. I put away the SOT for the winter because it's such a wet ride. Sitting there with my butt frozen into the recess of my SOT just isn't appealling. Back on the pros of a enclosed boat - bug season. It sure is nice sealing those beasties out for the day. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Feb 25 1999 - 08:56:09 PST
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