Saul Kinderis wrote: >It looks like someone is finally designing a canoe for owners of British >heavy kayaks. If it becomes a commercial success, I'll finally have a canoe >worthy of being placed next to my favorite kayak. Saul, they've been having that same contest yearly for over 25 years now. I think they're finally to the point to where they've made a few light enough to float all the way to the finish line. These are husky college kids handling them, not us "more mature wimps" normally found on this list. When Bob Denton called McNeese's entry "lightweight," he was using the term as one relative to all the others that required a crane for unloading from the semi-trailer. <grin> >Now if they could just make a good concrete or maybe steel or even lead, >feathered, winged, or Greenland style paddle, we'd finally have all the >equipment a hard core paddler needs. I could possibly cobble one together for you, price might not even be real bad. You gotta want it though. <serious> Hank Hays Paddlemaker *************************************************************************** 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 May 06 1999 - 11:13:23 PDT
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