At 09:48 AM 10/5/99 -0700, Jackie Fenton wrote: Sorry to piggyback your post, Jackie, I must have deleted Tomckayaks orginal. >From: Tomckayak_at_aol.com > >> "Yes I believe" >> >> A clean stern (no rudder) is the first thing I look at when I meet a Sea >> kayaker. Then I notice the sex of the paddler, age and body shape if female, >> but that's hard with pfd and spray skirt on. >> Driving down the highway I will not wave to that passing S.U.V. with the >> kayaks on top until the state of "rudderless" is known. >> At the symposium I contemptuously mach past any demo boat with a rudder. >> If I help carry kayaks up from the beach I will not grab the stern of a >> rudder equipped kayak. >> I paddle a Mariner Kayak. I wonder how you would feel about a kayak that I saw at a Symposium in Maine. I believe it was just under 13' long and was an inflatable. The seat was a partially inflated foil bag from a "box of wine". Not only was it equipped with a rudder but it also had a boat and paddle tether. The owner of this kayak was a woman. Her name is Audrey Sutherland. During a class that I took with Chris Duff (you might have seen his slide show recently at the West coast symposium about his circumnavigation of Ireland) he said that when he grows up, he wants to be Audrey Sutherland. Not only has she probably logged more miles in this kayak (on a couple of shorter inflatables) along the notorius Na Pali coast on the Island of Kauai (and written two books about it) she has also completed at least two 650+ mile solo trips down the coast of Alaska in it. She made an interesting point about rudders. She said that most of the people that bash rudders on sea kayaks have never paddled for eight hours straight in a 30mph crosswind. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 05 1999 - 11:03:16 PDT
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