Hi all, Well, I just returned from a week in Washington State, visiting family/friends, and wanted to tell ya'll how it went. While this was a family trip, so I didn't really have much time to get out on the water, I did manage to squeeze in a couple of day trips. One trip was on a remote lake, while the other was on the sound. We tied two boats onto the car using two lengths of line across their centers. On the water I wore Tevas, shorts and a short sleeved synthetic t-shirt. I carried my pfd inside the boat, under my legs. Coming back on the second trip we had to paddle against some wind. So I feathered my paddle. Not so much because I had to, or even because I thought it would be much of a real help, but because I remembered a thread before I left where a number of folks warned that if a person switches between feathered and unfeathered they will miss their brace and drown. Well, guess what? Much to the utter chagrin, I'm sure, of everyone on this list, I made it back! We didn't lose or damage the boats, nobody died, and there weren't any close calls. Is that amazing or what? While I'd love to fill you in with all of the details I'm afraid I have to go out and do some work on my racks right now. You see, I've decided to switch from using nylon webbing for tying the boats down, to rubber bunjie cords. cya, Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 8/29/99 11:12:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, KiAyker_at_aol.com writes: << Much to the utter chagrin, I'm sure, of everyone on this list, I made it back! >> Are you out trolling again? A small lake and a short junta on the sound and you are advising everyone to do what? Ignorance is bliss *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Paddlewisers, Reading Scott's posting was a refreshing change from the normal stuffiness about equipment and technique we see on Paddlewise so often. A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather anal retentive. I am also guilty of being that way sometimes. Psychologists ought to be using this board to find these types of people for studies. Our sport could use more loosening up, like we see with Scott. It sure would be a lot more fun--and still be safe. Sometimes the sea kayaker attitude alienates me, so I think of myself as being a sea kayaker with a white water attitude. Duane Strosaker Southern California *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Stuffy? Us? Why we are not stuffy, stuffed maybe, I don't plan to stop using my mismatched bungies along with my nylon ties. I guess that is my "adventuring." Besides some of us paddle kayaks called Feathercraft K-Light. It is hard to be stuffy with a kayak called that name. <broad laugh followed by sly grin> Some of us even drink Laphrohaig even if we can't pronounce it. =^..^= --Mel-- Mel Lammers mslammers_at_earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <Strosaker_at_aol.com> To: <KiAyker_at_aol.com>; <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Whatever! > Paddlewisers, > > Reading Scott's posting was a refreshing change from the normal stuffiness > about equipment and technique we see on Paddlewise so often. A lot of sea > kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather anal retentive. > I am also guilty of being that way sometimes. Psychologists ought to be > using this board to find these types of people for studies. Our sport could > use more loosening up, like we see with Scott. It sure would be a lot more > fun--and still be safe. Sometimes the sea kayaker attitude alienates me, so > I think of myself as being a sea kayaker with a white water attitude. > > Duane Strosaker > Southern California > *************************************************************************** > 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/ ***************************************************************************
>A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather anal retentive. My Dear Young Man, How perceptive of you to recognise this characteristic of sea kayakers. The presence of anally retentive sea kayakers in North America raises serious questions for public security for, if they do exist, it is certain that, like all other primates, they are warmblooded. A furry warmblooded mammal, the House Mouse, must eat its entire body weight per day in order to sustain its production of feces - and a sea kayaker only has fur on its face. Therefore, sea kayakers must eat like demons, to maintain body warmth and the energy needed to post to Paddlewise. These ravenous paddlers descend upon farmers' cornfields and eat perfectly circular and geometrically precise patterns, leaving a sweet-smelling day-glow orange spoor which will later provide an ideal growth medium for funguses specializing in feeding on circular rings of proto-Inuit faeces. The number of cornfields that have been destroyed by sea kayaker attack grows every year in direct proportion to the number of sea kayakers (coincidence? I think not). These funguses are fermented by the sea kaykers into a potent brew often confused with Scotch whiskey and served at yuppie bars to lawyers and day traders who rush right out and buy Internet stocks. Occasionally young children will find stray fungus which they roll into funny cigarettes and smoke exclaiming what "good shit" it is. When all the cornfields have been despoiled these omnivorous primates are sure to turn on human flesh, just as do Mice, if they are once given access to Cheese. I propose therefore that (1) Sea kaykers not be sold cheese, that (2) Sea kayaking clubs be policed by whip weilding Gestapo - like female police wearing short skirts and long leather boots, (3) Paddlers found Dancing naked on the beach should be squashed ruthlessly with a Greenland paddle. Alternatively, as a means of dealing with these malevolent creatures, we may adopt the traditional defence of embracing them vigorously, thereby squeezing out every vistage of excrement and leaving them pure as the driven whitewater paddler. Sincerely, Dr. Peregrine Inverbon, Ph.d., DD, LL.d, Ph.G Transcribed by Dr. Inverbon's humble servant John Winters *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
735769 wrote: > > Sea kayaking club.....a Greenland paddle. > > Sincerely, > > Dr. Peregrine Inverbon, Ph.d., DD, LL.d, Ph.G > > Transcribed by Dr. Inverbon's humble servant John Winters > Steve (some snippage may have occurred above) -- Test Scoring and Reporting Services University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-5593 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> > >A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather > anal retentive. > This could be a real advantage for a sea kayaker...... Karen :-) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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Scott wrote: > > >A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on > Paddlewise, are rather > > anal retentive. > > to whicch Karen replied: > This could be a real advantage for a sea kayaker...... > 'Specially to those of us who routinely wear a dry suit! Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
-----Original Message----- From: Hancock <magpi_at_access1.net> To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Date: Monday, August 30, 1999 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Whatever! >> >> >A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather >> anal retentive. Ok lets be realistic, if we were really anal retentive the thread on "Disposal of Human Waste" would not have so much input (or out put). Arthur *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
RE being anal retentive may be a good thing for a sea kayaker. If may prevent you from taking on water should you need to wet exit. I believe most North American water fowl use this same technology. Bruce (St. Aug) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 04:58 PM 8/30/99 -0400, Outfit3029_at_aol.com wrote: >RE being anal retentive may be a good thing for a sea kayaker. > If may prevent you from taking on water should you need to wet exit. I >believe most North American water fowl use this same technology. > Bruce (St. Aug) Same goes for frogs. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
This may explain my observation that there is a lot fewer deaths among sea kayakers than I would expect given how many non-outdoor types have taken up the sport lately. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com -----Original Message----- >>A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather >anal retentive. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
This may explain my observation that there is a lot fewer deaths among sea kayakers than I would expect given how many non-outdoor types have taken up the sport lately. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com -----Original Message----- >>A lot of sea kayakers, especially many posting on Paddlewise, are rather >anal retentive. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ *************************************************************************** the extreme winds holding us on the desert island even though we constructed a huge windbreak. Too much flutter with all the pressure changes. >My two cents...(then again, you can always by the PUR reverse osmosis water >production pump (Survivor #6 I think) for around US $500 :-) anyone ever >used one of these??) Yes tried one out some, and made a better still using a pressure cooker (makes a good cook pot) and coils of copper tubing for my next Baja trip. The desalinator works but you will do a lot of work for a little fresh water. Survivor is a good name for it but, I wouldn't recommend the small one for your total water supply. Every squeeze gets you a couple of drops. also the membrane requires careful care and has a limited lifespan. It is also expensive to replace. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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