......IN RELATED NEWS....... FLASH! Tybee Ga. (pronounced JAW-juh) auxillery coast guard pull over a becalmed windsurfer (just standing on his rig praying for wind), for not wearing a PFD!!! They reportedly threatened him with no dinner and a ticket (we had another drowning Wednesday......two so far this year) FILM AT 11:00 (I done saw the whole thaang.) down he'eah boy, that'd be thuddy days or thuddy dollahs........(actually it's more like $500 fine) $500 dollars!~ Why that'd be a good downpayment on a Romany Explorer! ........... .......................just ANOTHER reason to wear that PFD Chris (who is seriously lusting after a Romany Explorer) Bhansen97_at_aol.com wrote: > I'm on the side of the wetsuit-drysuit wearers. I think I'm a good paddler, > and I am very unlikely to come out of the boat unless I want to. But the > operative word is "unlikely", and I'm a "good" paddler, not a perfect one. > It's not "impossible" for me to come out of the boat. Few to none of us are > perfect. Few to none can predict the future precisely. So I wear protection > against cold water. > > It's been said that we should all asses our skills and our comfort levels. > Okay. People do bungie jumping, hang gliding, sky-diving on those bases. A > few people jump motorcycles over lines of cars. They believe they have > assessed their skill levels and their tolerances for risk. Most of them are > okay - but some are not. > > The thing which bothers me the most about this string is that I fear that > there will be some people who read it and think they know their skill levels, > but overestimate those skills. Jackie's point is very valid - there are many > reports of kayakers who died from hypothermia (please don't get to splitting > hairs with this "oh they really drowned" stuff), but none I've read in which > kayakers died of hyperthermia. > > Bill Hansen > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 21:17:21 PDT
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