NAME: Larry Koenig CONTACT: gyst_at_soon.com 225-343-3330 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BOATS still owned, in order of acquisition: Wenonah Sundowner 18 Wenonah Advantage XL Wenonah built Orion, a flat water sprint kayak Necky Arluk 1 -named "Procyon, the Skimmer" Dagger Response Aleut Sea II - (a ponderous original made by Pure Perfection Custom) named "Star of Isis" and called "I and I Boat" Nautiraid Greenlander (original version) which has been paddled only a few times and lives on my living room ceiling Seda Impulse called "Alcyon" P&H Sirius called "The Pup" ( Sirius being a rather pretentious name methinks and so renamed for Sirius B) Foster Rowe Silhouette Findeisen X, surfski Williams Performance Kayak Paradigm - brand new to me and hopefully the boat to end my quest While it may be appropriate to have a quiver of boats to choose from depending on what kind of conditions and type of paddling one's about at the time the discerning reader may note some redundancy here. ( My wife certainly has.) Despite my new self designation as a "collector", 4 rigid solo cruising boats is, I agree, a bit much and so I'm planning on selling a couple any day now. :~) RADIO specs: WUS 4099 licensed to "Ibinghy the Pelican" (a now defunct Nimbus Puffin) SPECIAL INTERESTS: Growing of orchids, gingers, and aroids. The Gulf of Mexico, its paddling, history, biology etc. So called "World Music" - mainly reggae and Caribbean music. Amateur astronomy. Language. SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: Emergency medicine STRONG OPINIONS: None that I'm unwilling to reconsider MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP: That'd probably have to be a week of white water on the Rio Jatate during extremely high water in the Lacandon rain forest of Chiapas at a time when the Zapatistas were cutting up. It made transport off water very interesting too. BIO: I'm 45, delightfully married to a non paddler, father of a boy,24 and a girl, 21 (who paddles), an ER doctor in a small Cajun town on Bayou Teche and an avid user of the Mississippi River ( as my default paddling destination). Paddling boats came into my life in a big way when I was a med student, influenced my choice of residency programs (Portland OR) and has been my chief source of escape, exercise and exploration of the world ever since. My focus has shifted during that time from running rivers to going fast on flat water to cruising open water. I'm always honing technical skills. The Gulf of Mexico is now my playground. *************************************************************************** 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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