Re: [Paddlewise] experience kayaker clinging

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:47:52
At 03:13 AM 11/7/99 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote:

>in proportion to the extent we regularly test our skills.  And, if we are
>truly *testing* our skills, we are sometime, somewhere, gonna have an
>"incident."  The guy who hugged the buoy could have been one of us.  I think
>it is good to parse out what happened, and what mistakes he might have made,
>*if we do it with a grain of humility.*  The tut-tut crowd should cut the
buoy
>guy some slack, is what tomckayak is saying, I believe.

I think of all the rationalizing or the "I wouldn't have done thats" you
hear on rec.boat.paddle at a death or a near miss. Sort of sounds like
whistling past the graveyard to me. I think we're above that here.

-- Wes

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