re: [Paddlewise] who's whom

.....nudder one.

    a.  Name:   Christopher R. Kohut  (....the R. is for Robin, if you
really must know)
    b.  Contact:   chriskayak_at_earthlink.net   My domicile is in
Savannah, JAW-juh
    c.  Boats:   ....ah, yes....    lemee see ..... In descending order
of current fascination:
            1.  17 foot Lemon Baidarka (all my heart)
            2.   19 foot Lemon Baidarka (nearly all my heart)
            3.    North Shore Fuego (heavy British, heavy.....what can I
say?    Britannia
                                    rules the waves!)
            4.  CLC Patuxent 19' 7" (stretched it an inch, like it
really needed it).  For racing,
                        or those occasions when public humiliation is
called for.
            5.  Mega Jester Storm  (International surf boat)   It's
still  trying to kill me.

            6.  Early proto-type of a Necky Rip (glass)  Carves nicely
in the wave face--no
                        flat spins though
               7.  Necky Gliss  (Plastique)   Does carve flatspins in
the waveface....and
                                little else.

                8.  (on order)...Necky Stingray  (come on Spike!)  I
have had torrid dreams
                    of this boat..... I'd tell you.....but this is a
family oriented list.
                9.  Assorted stitch and glues -- completed, some under
nearly completed,
                        some on the never-never rack.
                    I'll not include the quiver of longboards......

        Interests:   Aqueous Velocity.  Reef aquaria.  Ellie.  My kids.
My grandkids (don't
                        get me started)....boat building.....books on
Civil War history...("it was
                            more about shovelry than chivalry "--Shelby
Foote) Theology.
                                (can I get a witness??!)   Ellie, (did I
already mention her?)
            d.  Special knowledge:  working on it.  (Say, did you hear
about the frustrated
                   student of  Zen who walked up to the hot-dog vendor
in NY city?
                       " How 'bout making me one with everything?" )

            e.  Strong opinions:      .....who  ....Me???

       f.  Most interesting trip:  A rather tame moonlight paddle with
the pod  in
                    Savannah, up the Vernor river into tide swollen
irrigation streams, from
                        thence to flooded ancestral rice paddies, the
way the shadows of the
                spanish moss laden live oaks played with the moonlight,
the whole scene
                looked like something out of a Tolkien novel.  Sharp eye
out for orks.

    g.  bio:  married coming onto 25 years....4 kids (2 of our own, two
who followed us
                home in California.....".can we keep them
....pleeeeeze?")  Aged 22, 21, 12,
                    10!  Wife, Ellie.  (don't get me started!....she's a
good paddler too!)  I keep
            body and soul together by fixing cigarette burns at car
dealerships.  And leather.
            Yuppies must have perfect leather in their Range
Rovers.(must'nt forget that).
            Did a 6 year stint pastoring in California......(thank you
sweet Jesus for
                        deliverance!)  Rode two churches down in flames
and kept my
            family,...... and sanity (mostly).  ......developed a taste
for mutton though.   Two
                    grandkids (oh man....is this gettin' good now!)
                            That's enough for now.




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