Re: [Paddlewise] Successful Catalina Crossings

After mountains of supportive emails,flames have been redirected towards
me...


>On Jun 26, 11:19, DMurray911_at_aol.com wrote:
>} Subject: [Paddlewise] Catalina, etc.
>> Howdy
>> Just signed on to Paddlewise. Wow! Have to get a larger mailbox.
>> First, Many sincere thanks to Albert Wang for his deserved attitude
>> adjustment directed to me. I deserved it, and besides his story is much
>> better!
>> Secondly, my apologies to all that had to tolerate me exercising my
>> Constitutional right to make a fool of myself in public. I know better
and
>> will not allow it to happen in the future.
>> Happy Paddles, Dave Murray


[Bob Myers wrote:]

>Just to explain a little bit to the Paddlewise subscribers who may be
>a little confused by what's going on here, Dave Murray sent in his
>version of the Catalina crossing story recently posted by Duane
>Strosaker. Dave replied to Duane's story with the same list of
>recipients, so it was submitted to Paddlewise even though he wasn't
>subscribed to the list.
>
>Dave's story never made it to Paddlewise due to a number
>of problems - the large recipient list, Dave's non-member status,
>and even more than that, the bulk of Dave's story was a rich text
>format (RTF) attachment that was filtered by our demime filters.
>
>Albert Wang's message was a very funny parody of Dave's story.
>
>I'll bet Albert is a really great guy to paddle with!
>
>--
>Bob Myers                          InteleNet Communications, Inc.



I may not be so great to paddle with...
A.
 [Paddlewise]
Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Successful Catalina Crossings
>Albert, let me get this straight ...  you drank alot of beer while
>only half way through a trip;  you failed to even watch your landmarks
>while conducting a circumvation (geez it was only half a mile away - how
>many land marks did you need?);  you relied on two boys for directions,
>and then you pushed tipped their kayaks over?
>
>  And you don't want to paddle with them?  I'm not sure of your age, but
>you seem old enough to know better on all accounts.  First and foremost,
>I NEVER paddle or swim after drinking alcohol.  I'm not preaching
>against beer, but you need to use common sense.  As a former lifeguard
>I've seen way too many problems and near drownings caused by alcohol
>use.  How many beers did you have?  No wonder you almost got lost coming
>back! Also, alcohol dehydrates your body.
>
>   As a final point, there's nothing funny about being a bully and
>pushing two little kids' boat over.  Just how old are you?  I've noticed
>that bullies always like to do things like this to those smaller than
>themselves.  Would you have tried pushing a grown man's boat over?  And
>what if one of the kids had drown?
>

I have learned empirically that pushing a grown man's boat over is *NOT* a
good idea. I should probably stick to those younger and smaller.
A.

>   I'm sorry if I seem a bit overly critical.  But folks need to act
>responsibly on the water.  Try drinking and paddling on the Catalina
>trip and we may be reading your obituary.
>
>  - Scott Ives

Put that way, you make me sound just plain stupid... :)
A.

[Paddlewise]
Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Successful Catalina Crossings
>Hear, Hear!  (British expression)
>
>Well said, Scott, I was thinking the same.
>
>Sandy Kramer


Now I feel bad... :(

After apologies and all...

Lesson learned: don't group reply when there are multiple mail lists that
you don't belong too. I did not look carefully. Parallel threads get started
and discontinuous stories are propagated. Attachments stripped from messages
can wreak havoc on subsequent replies in the thread.

If it will make anybody feel better I can paint my kayak flourescent pink so
that I can easily be spotted and avoided. Or I can trade my kayaks for a jet
ski.

I seem to recall this all got started because of some navigational
difficulties. I have come up with a solution!!!

My new soon-to-be-patented kayak navigational device is called "Line2Land"
TM. It's a rather ingenious device consisting of 500 yds of monofilament
line neatly coiled arount a precision cut and sanded piece of wood (~1.5" x
3.5" x 20.5"). To use, just tie one end around an object on land and merrily
paddle away. When it is time to return, it's as easy as following the line
back! Use it once or rewind for multiple uses. The beauty is that you  can
use multiple linkable Line2Lands for longer trips. Line2Land has joined the
compass, sextant, GPS, and stars as primary sea navigational devices.

Because I feel so bad, I'm selling them to you guys who have tolerated this
thread for only $249/ea!!! That's a small price to pay for primary or
back-up navigation ... and more importantly paddling buddies.

WARNING: Beta-testing has shown that tying the Line2Land to movable objects
such as boats, bikes, cars, seagulls, seals, etc., can render the Line2Land
useless.

...It seems that there is a slight blip in subscription this weekend for the
Paddlewise list from the SoCal area. I know i account for one.

BTW, I'm looking for new paddling buddies. My former ones got tired of
getting wet.

Live long and paddle,

Albert Wang


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