Re: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:10:42
At 01:20 PM 1/13/00 EST, LedJube_at_aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/13/00 9:53:21 AM, dkruger_at_pacifier.com writes:
><< FYI:  Wes Boyd (a Paddlewiser?) has posted this treatise on yaks for big 
>guys: 
>http://www2.dmci.net/users/wesboyd/bigguy.htm>>
>
>Feeling rather svelte.......
>
>Since Wes Boyd has decried the Romany, and by association the Explorer,  as 
>"Shrimp Boats"  I'm feeling pretty good about my size.  Granted the Explorer 
>fits my 6'1" 230# roundness very snugly, but I do in fact fit, and it is a 
>comfortable fit.  

A "snug" fit at 230#? Yep, that's a "shrimp boat", all right.

My definition of a shrimp boat is anything that too small for ME to fit into.
(At 6'0" and 300 lbs.)

-- Wes
Thinking big thoughts.


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