Re: [Paddlewise] Stand in a kayak?!?

impressive!! here's the url to maligiaq padilla, doing pushups on top of a
17" wide boat!! i'd be a swimmer if i tried to anything like that!! i can
barely stand up in my glass canoe!!

http://www.jacksonville.net/~dldecker/mp18.jpg

the whole series:
http://www.jacksonville.net/~dldecker/pm.htm

mark

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mel Grindol wrote:

> This last weekend my wife and I took a great two day class from GRO.  
> During the rescue drills Julie showed the demonstrators how she could
> get back into a boat without any assistance or a paddle float.  They
> started to tease her about how good her balance must be.  Someone came
> up with the bright idea that she could probably even stand in her
> boat... So she did it!
> 

> This photo is the second time in the day she stood in a boat.  The
> boat she's in is the boat I paddled for most of the two day class (we
> just swapped for an hour to test the other boat).  It is a NDK Romany
> Explorer 18, of which I am currently lusting after (well, and the girl
> in the boat too).  Julie paddled the Romany 16 most of the weekend and
> loved it much more than the Explorer.

> 
> Anyways, on to the photos:
> 
> http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand1.html
> 
> is a smaller picture (about 179k)
> 
> while
> 
> http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand.html
> 
> is an enlarged picture but is ~750k.  The first small page has a link
> to the second page.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Mel


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