.....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. *************************************************************************** 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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