This is responce to Julio's post about Costco and REI selling sea kayaks and retaier responsibility. Last year the REI Flagship stores in Seattle and Bloomington, Minnesota, started sea kayak instruction programs for persons who buy sea kayaks. They both offer a free three hour American Canoe Association certified class for any one buying a new sea kayak. Other one day and weekend classes are offered also in addition to the monthly free clinics that offer information about the safety issues involved with sea kayaking. At the end of the ACA courses the instructors give out course cards to the student so that they can rent sea kayaks from the other groups that have responsibility with sea kayaking, Outfitters. An informed group of sea kayak users will keep the incident rates down, Don Dimond *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 04 1999 - 14:22:19 PST
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