I believe you can find instructions by typing in the following on your web browser http://guillemot-kayaks.com/Building/PaddleLetter click on <paddle.html> The nice thing about Doug Alderson in he isn't prone to my sarcasm (he just gasn't paddled enough to become jaded like me!) BC'in YA Doug Lloyd At 09:54 AM 5/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >Doug ....really liked your respose on this ...did I detect "sacrcasm set >on lite" ?....A right on response in the opinion of this yet "another >sinner" .....I have tried, I swear I've tried !! .....How thin are the >laminations your bud uses in the paddles he constructs ? ..... >......Peyton (Louisiana) >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/033708.htm Published: Wednesday, May 5, 1999 Voyageurs bans personal watercraft Few such machines used at national park If you're headed for Voyageurs National Park, leave your personal watercraft at home. The superintendent of the national park on the Minnesota-Ontario border announced this week that the small, highly maneuverable watercraft no longer can be operated in the park. The action implements a National Park Service policy announced last summer directing park superintendents to prohibit use of the controversial machines within parks until a final system wide policy is in place. Instead of immediately banning them, Voyageurs solicited public comment first. Park Superintendent Barbara West said the park received 217 responses and two signed petitions, overwhelmingly favoring a ban on their use within the park. ``They can't say we didn't give it plenty of thought,'' West said. She said the decision was based on a number of factors, including minimizing impacts between different groups, protecting nesting waterfowl and shore birds, and maintaining such aesthetic park values as solitude. Personal watercraft, commonly referred to as jet-skis, have come under unrelenting criticism in many quarters. Critics contend they are noisy and operators too often drive them exclusively in confined areas, bothering other people and wildlife. While the ban had opposition, West said there have not been many personal watercraft used at Voyageurs, a predominately water-based park. ``I think people who oppose it (the ban) oppose it more on theoretical grounds than they do reality,'' she said. West said the decision to ban their use this week coincided with ice-out on park waters. The overall National Park Service regulation, meanwhile, still has not been completed. In April, the National Park Service also announced plans to expand a ban on personal watercraft on the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, effective May 15. Under that ban, the watercraft would no longer be allowed on the Lower St. Croix River between Taylors Falls, Minn., and Stillwater, Minn., and on a flowage near Trego, Wis. Last year the agency banned use of the machines on the Upper St. Croix except for the Trego and Hayward flowages on the Namekagon River portion of the national scenic riverway. Dennis Lien can be reached at dlien_at_pioneerpress.com or at (651) 228-5588. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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