Dan said "but don't discount the idiots with a key." I had been paddling for about an hour and a 25' cruiser overloaded with "new Canadians" kept on passing me causing a large wake as they would circle back every 10 minutes or so. The water in the area was deep and regardless of how close I kept to shore, they would pass by closely. When I was paddling parallel to a dock at a commercial marina the boat came back again and even though he could clearly see me he suddenly veered closely across my bow to dock. This didn't surprise me as you get used to rude and careless boaters and I proceeded to paddle around the boat. But when a chap on the dock yelled that they were dragging a line in the water he gunned the engine pointing the boat directly at me. Frantic back paddling and more than a little luck saved me. The only reason for this I could think of is they may have had poor english and thought the chap on the dock was chasing them off. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jun 08 1999 - 11:48:50 PDT
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