>Increase of use by new users looks inevitable to me. Population is >growing AND awareness of outdoor persuits is growing. There are going >to be more kayakers paddling around, how can the resources accomodate >them? Well: Very uncomfortably > Matt is right about this. There are too many people trying to camp in the few campsites available in places like the San Juan Islands. I have a plan for dealing with this particular problem People with yachts avoid the camping problem by sleeping (and pooping) afloat. This is a legal, and reasonably inoffensive, way to camp in overpopulated areas. Most of us choose kayaks in order to avoid the trouble of large boats, but it is practical to use quite small boats for camping on the water. I like very small sailboats with a cockpit tent or a tiny sleeping cabin and a porta-potty. I am working on various ingenious designs for carrying sea-kayaks on such boats. This kind of small camp-cruiser can easily be pulled on a trailer, launched and sailed to an anchorage, and used as a floating campsite and base of operations for exploring overpopulated areas by kayak. This is not an ideal solution. You loose some flexibility with such an arangement, but it is a way to avoid the campsites. Get together with a few others and you could even set up your own temporary floating water trails . . . Nick Lyle *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 02:00 AM 10/6/99 -0700, Whitesavage & Lyle wrote: >I like very small sailboats with a cockpit tent or a tiny sleeping cabin >and a porta-potty. I am working on various ingenious designs for >carrying sea-kayaks on such boats. This kind of small camp-cruiser can Do any of those ideas involve not being driven into Ralph's arms? I've been kicking around the small sailboat idea as sort of a mini-mothership arrangement. -- Wes *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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