[Paddlewise] Introduction to the list

Dear paddlewisers,

after having been a new subscriber of the list since the end of february
I think it's time to introduce myself a little bit.
I am 46 and I live in the northern part of Germany, next to the dutch
frontier and about 150 km away from the North sea. Too long a distance
to go there each weekend for seakayaking! So you will find me usually
very often on the rivers around (like the EMS) and on some bigger lakes
in the Netherlands. I am organized with some of my friends in the german
"Salzwasser-Union" of seakayakers and we took some training there in
navigation, selfrescue and partner-rescue. I am not yet too good in
eskimorolling, allthough I am teaching my pupils in kano-polo at school
and they all learn the handroll pretty well. Nevertheless I am rather
experienced in kayaking, since I have been paddling from my 17.th.
birthday up to the roaring fities. I fell in love with seakayaks in my
thirties because of its wonderfull shapes and since then I am a very
proud owner of an 'english heavy' like the CALYPSO from NORTH - SHORE.
Each member of my four person family has his own seakayak. Unfortunately
my three girls only prefer sunshine-paddling!
The last five years we spent our summer holidays with some other
families at the beautiful swedish coast. I will never forget these happy
summerdays of paddling with good friends in this marvelous area of that
country. We all really fell in love with it. Perhaps you can imagine
now, why we want to go to the Aland Archipelagos in the Baltic sea. It
is a real dream and we want it to come true in 2000. We think, that
should be a good date.

Cheers!

Rudi Koormann

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