Re: [Paddlewise] Perfect Boat is Plastic!

Wes Boyd wrote:
> 
>  
> I know of a lot of fiberglass paddlers that cringe at my normal landing
> technique in my Old Town Heron -- which is to get it going full bore and
> then ram it up onto the beach -- gravel, rocks, sand, I don't concern
> myself about it too much. I don't like getting my feet wet, and rarely do
> with this technique. It was the realization that I'd have to give up this
> little trick that caused me to put the money I'd saved up for a fiberglass
> kayak into a fiberglass sailboat.
> 
> The thread going on about tenting on a kayak is sort of an extension of
> this idea. I kept thinking it'd be nice to have a two-person kayak that
> could be sailed, and tented on -- at least for solo, and I was looking at a
> plastic double with a big cockpit. Then, I realized that it's really not
> going to be that good a sailor, nor that comfortable, so I started to
> revise my thinking. The sailboat isn't any longer than a kayak, but it is a
> little beamier. Quite a little, in fact.
> 
> -- Wes
> 
>

Hi Wes, and all,

Good luck with the new sailboat. I sure hope you find more pleasure in it 
than I did mine. 
I sold my 22' "mac" this spring. Altho it was a joy to look at sitting 
out there and I loved to run my hand over her each day, I decided that 
she was just a broken promise..
My folding kayaks are there, ready to go anywhere in the world at a 
moments notice. Deep ocean, shallow lake. I could go on and on with my 
thought process, but the bottom line was that I decided the sailboat only 
"promised" of adventure, but returned only problems, endless exspences, 
and even more endless excuses not to go.

Best day in a while was the day it was pulled off the land. Maybe it was 
just me, and feeling that I was cheating on the folbots..., or who I am.?

We still take L&A magazine, and dream.

Better luck with yours!!

James


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