Mattson, Timothy G wrote: > ... but its interesting. The Coast Gaurd finds kayaks heading out to sea so > rare, they don't know how to handle it when they encounter them. Oregon is > a paddler's paradise and we have huge numbers of kayakers, but only a tiny > fraction of them paddle along the coast. I guess we have so many great > rivers and estuaries in Oregon, that you can paddle a lifetime without once > heading out to sea. Oregon is a terrible place to sea kayak, and it has expensive, tasteless microbrews, too! Seriously: the surf on many of the beaches in my part of Oregon is heavy stuff, with six feet an average day in many places, and with very wide littoral cells (many miles for some), offering few "edges" to sneak past the big stuff. I question whether most FG yaks (except for British "heavy" yaks) can survive a steady diet of surf zone play or transits when the surf is big. I know of at least three FG hardshells which got severely broken in surf. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 12 1999 - 21:59:13 PDT
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