Personally, I liked the part where they threw the motor, battery and garbage overboard. Yeah, they were out to experience nature at its fullest. (The garbage bag, if relatively intact, would have made a decent float bag. So of course they tossed it out.) The other spot that was good was where they spoke of a previous trip where they couldn't paddle to shore ... so he jumped in the water and swam the boat to shore. At that point I wondered if they just made they whole damn thing up. What do you think? Can humans really be this stupid and survive? The boat crewman's wisecrack at the end ("Course if you drowned you wouldn't have to put up with all that Y2K shit") was worth the reading of the article, though. jerry. At 09:44 PM 12/08/1999 -0800, Donald Schoengold wrote: >Just goes to prove that sometimes Darwin was wrong. Was there anything that >that pair did that made any sense at all? > >Joe Brzoza wrote: > >> I certainly would never try an open water crossing in a canoe without having >> floatation bags securely strapped in (If I were to chose a canoe at all). >> You could go on and on about the mistakes made in this story. >> > > > >*************************************************************************** >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/ >*************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 08:59:26 PST
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