Re: [Paddlewise] warning,Charleston,life,Derek,sharks and etc.

At 03:42 PM 4/16/99 -0700, Frank Lucian wrote:
>Dan wrote:
>>Sigh, this equine has been beaten into a
>>MessyMoldyMorrass. I stayed out of this
>>before but...... 
>(giant snip)
>
>Uh, guys, I think Dana was just pulling your leg with his warning of
>lack of bow & stern lines. (I was laughing very hard when I read it,
>anyway.) I wouldn't give it so much thought.
>
>Frank
>
>P.S. FWIW, I was fortunate enough to paddle with Dana when I lived in
>Fla. and I can assure you he is a safe and responsible paddler (whether
>the boat is on the car or in the water). And obviously, he is no fun to
>paddle with!  :-)
>


Just got back from the Charleston symposium today. Sorry about the warning
message but I did not want you to lack of anything to talk about while I
was gone. Also I wanted to see how many people still saw only in black and
white when there are beautiful colors out there.

Second I am a boy the last time I looked anyhow. The internet goes world
wide and don't post information about me one it. To private I guess. 

Third, two interesting things happened at Charleston this weekend, I was
selling a cd of clip art among other things and sells were slow, the
weather was bad when little ole Derek H. stopped by for a chat. He was
holding my cd in his hand talking about it and five people rushed up and
bought one without even asking the price or what it was. Talking about sell
ability (Derek has it) one person waited till he put it down and grabbed
the one he was holding. When he reached for it again it wasn't there and he
started looking around for it I handed him another cause he looked
bewildered because he couldn't find it. Next weird thing is I met a guy
from Corpus Christi that had been paddling around Cumberland Island Ga. and
after he had rounded the northern end and was in the ocean paddling against
a good 20mph head wind he heard a rushing wake and looked around and could
not see any thing next thing he new his kayak was knocked thirty degrees
off course so he paddled quickly to shore and found a sharks tooth sticking
out of his kayak and other teeth marks and scratches. I took several
pictures of his kayak and the tooth still sticking out of the hull. He
talked to a marine biologist and he looked at the tooth and said it looked
like mako shark. He was paddling a dagger meridian with a white hull and
blue deck. So if you paddle one similar you are shark bait. 

Dana

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