I'm happy to hear that all were safe, but the incident immediately brought to mind "Mr. Hulot's Holiday", a Jaques Tati film of the fifties. In one scene he is trying to impress a young woman with his skills when suddenly both ends of the kayak rise up like jaws, closing around him and he sinks slowly out of sight....... >H.E. Doeve <henk.doeve_at_tip.nl> wrote: >> Today, Oct. 24st, we could borrow a 2-months-old Calypso II, built by >> Northshore, England. >> It is the type that has 2 parts for easy transporting. It can be assembled >> into a 2-seater within 1 minute. SNIP >> On the way back within sight distance of the harbour and a headwind of 5 Bf >> and waves of max 1 meter we heard some terrible wrong sounds: within >> several seconds the boat was falling apart in the 2 original sections. I >> was sitting in the front. Problem is: nothing behind the seat, so after 5 >> meters of paddling alone the nose went up and I backwards down. ........... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 29 1999 - 08:03:47 PDT
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