Mattson, Timothy G wrote: > Well, I wouldn't exactly say white water kayakers avoid eddies. They are > places of relative calm where you can rest on the river. If you need to > scout a rapid and pick your line, you use an eddy. When the group spreads > out too much and you need to regroup, you jump in an eddy. I said,"kayakers try to avoid eddyLINES unless doing tricks in them". Perhaps I should have said, inexperienced boater that I am, _I_ try to avoid eddylines, except to cross quickly into the calm of the eddy! :) > When learning the sport, you spend many hours circling across > eddylines --- until the way it feels and how you need to lean the boat > becomes second nature. I'll have to try that more! > This, by the way, is one of the benefits to a sea kayaker of learning at > least the basics of white water paddling. After you get that gut feeling > for how to deal with eddies, tide rips and other powerful current gradients > in the ocean stop being scary and become just another feature of our > playground to respect and enjoy. I can see what you mean. Having never yet been in a tide rip; are they a lot "scarier" than big eddies? ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ "A person not related to nature is of course neurotic because he is not adapted to reality" -Carl Jung *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 16 1999 - 08:20:09 PDT
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