RE: [Paddlewise] New Boat-Let Me Tell a Story

-38, why that's fine paddling weather! Two of us headed out earlier 
this week in balmy 10F weather. The Mississippi was valiantly trying 
to maintain liquid form while everything above the waterline turned 
quickly to glass. Biggest concern is keeping your skirt from freezing 
to your boat.

We did rescue a dog that had jumped on in to Old Man River and 
couldn't get back out due to the ice shelf (props to Bill for that 
fancy seal rescue landing).

Besides, if you can't ski and kayak in the same day, are you really living?

-Patrick <with a frozen grin>



At 2:15 PM -0500 1/21/00, Bob Denton wrote:
>I just returned from a weekend in Toronto. I have gained a new level of
>respect for those who live above the 49th parallel! I can only compare my
>experience of walking out of a pub in downtown Toronto at 2am with the scene
>from 2001 when HAL ejects one of the crew into the cold void of space. It
>was beyond weather! It was another planet, radically different from the one
>my home in Delray Beach, Florida exists on. I was told it was -38 (at that
>temperature C and F are about the same: brutal) and the only comments passed
>by the locals were: "A bit cool eh?"
>
>I will never complain about hurricanes or mosquitoes again!
>
>cya
>
>
>>>>
>It was real cold this morning and getting colder.  My wife said that it may
>drop into the twenties this evening.  As a "Floridian" for twenty-five of my
>
>forty-three years, I suffer cerebral flatulence when the red on the
>thermometer turns blue.  We had hoped that my recent eyeserectumy would
>help.
> We are still optimistic.
> >>>
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