Susie .... Ahh, yes, I remember the day well. Newspaper headlines read "One-boat Man Goes Over Edge", or something like that. Actually, I would have been happy forever if the old "aluminum Grumann" had cooperated. Grandpa had a fibreglas pirogue, but the canoe WAS MINE !! Epoxy and heli-arc kept it going way beyond what a sane paddler would have used. But, hey, it finally got rigged out for sailing (with home-made lateen rigging, leeboards, and tiller rudder ); had an outrigger setup; had a small outboard motor mount; was indestructible ...well, almost. It was a Louisiana canoe that finally gave up the good fight against an Arkansas river. Newspaper headlines read "Man Lives, Boat Doesn't". ( I still get sad thinking about that final sight ! ) Well, I knew about rivets and epoxy and fibreglas and .....Hey, what's this ? Plastic ? Tupperware ? ....WOW !! Now to answer the question ....The itch has ALWAYS been there. My pile went from a quickly gotten OT 169 to a more organized approach toward Arkansas rivers via 2 ww yaks, and finally to a Sea Lion for tour-camping . I still have Grandpa's pirogue and it still carries its share of the itch ! I love my current pile of boats, but I don't think I have as much fun with ALL of them as I did with that grey-ghost canoe there in the foggy, mist of my memory .... Anybody got any good URL's for used boat lists ?? .......adieu ........Peyton (Louisiana) ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 14 1999 - 07:54:44 PDT
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