RE: [Paddlewise] (Paddlewise) Plastic is Perfect!???????????????? not!

From: Chuck Holst <CHUCK_at_multitech.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:51:03 -0600
>>
I often wonder how a Folbot would do for playing kayak polo against
plastic and fiberglass boats.  While Folbots don't turn that well and so
would lack in agility, they would make a mash of any hardshell they hit
with their killer ramming ends.  I can see a Folbot on a kayak polo team
acting like those legendary enforcers that the Boston Celtics use to
employ to break arms and legs of opposing team stars.

ralph diaz
>>

Last night I was reading Samuel Eliot Morrison's _The Two Ocean War_,
where he describes two battles in which an American destroyer rammed a
U-boat only to slide up onto the latter's deck without sinking it. The
ensuing battles were fought with knives, coffee mugs, and fists, along
with the more usual weapons of war. I doubt that a Folbot would do any
more damage to a hardshell (at least, a British one) than those
destroyers did to the U-boats.

Chuck Holst

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