John Fereira wrote: > > At 11:27 AM 10/5/99 -0700, James Lofton wrote: > >John Fereira wrote: > >> > >> MAJOR SNIP< > >> 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. > >> > >> > > > >AMEN, brothers and sisters!!!!! > > > >Send me your weak, your lame and lazy, your old and poor paddlers. > > Now that you mention age, Audrey did look to be in pretty good shape > for a woman that is likely in her late 60's. > > > > >That all fits me and I feel so-o-o good, now that I've seen the light and > >finially fitted a rudder to my old 17.5' folding super, after many years > >of doing it "proper". :-) > > > >James, 10% drag never felt so good > > If a 60+ year old woman can paddle a 13' inflatable with a 10% drag > on two 650+ mile solo expeditions in seas of 20' and 30mph winds > a trip like that ought to be a piece of cake for a young strapping buck like > James in his rudderless 17'5" folding super. > If only it were so. It's been a long, long, time sence that statement were true. Heck, I'm even thinking about getting something lighter than them 25 year old, stock, wooden, metal tipped paddles, so I won't hurt my shoulders. james *************************************************************************** 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 - 17:53:58 PDT
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