Re: [Paddlewise] The naming of boats

    For the same rationale that farm animals are seldom named (I imagine it's a
bit harder with the knife when you've been on a first name basis for years), I
do not name my kayaks.   Consume them, use them up, patch them up, build
another.  I have on occasion talked to my boat in language that would be
unprintable in a family orientated list.  .
    The Aleuts, I understand had a rich tradition of not only speaking to their
kayaks, but their biadarkas would occasionally answer back, as in the tribal
legend that moralized the importance of  'keeping in touch' with your baidarka,
and  including it in the most intimate details of your life, such as remembering
to transfer some of the warmth of your wife to the baidarka after conjugual
relations by rubbing the old girl's gunwales down (the baidarka's ---not the old
girl.).  The sneaky ol' boat in the legend waited for an opportune moment to
exact vengence on this breach of protocol , when the hunter was separated from
the pack in pea soup fog, * then * the boat speaks up and informs the hunter
words to the effect, " because you did not share with me the warmth of your wife
last time, I shall not carry you safely to shore."

            This of course is all nonsence.........but still the one  down in
the garage after a hot date with Miss Ellie in my bathrobe and bunny slippers
just a rubbin' those gunwales, just to be sure.

Dave Kruger wrote:

> Peter Osman wrote:
> >
> >         How many kayaks are named?
>
> I refer to my 17-foot humongous Eddyline Wind Dancer as The Cargo Barge
> because that's what it is.  My SO insists the 18-foot (but slimmer) yellow
> over white Sea Star should be "Sunny-side Up."  I don't know about that last
> one.  No name for the 15-1/2-foot stitch and glue boat.
>
> On the radio I am "Bufflehead," which the license says is the name of my
> craft, so maybe the cargo barge is really a duck!
>
> --
> Dave Kruger
> Astoria, OR
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