I've had the opposite happen: I was all set to attempt a round trip of a 4-mile crossing. It was about 9:00am and would have made for a 10-mile day. Weather was beautiful, no waves, no tide (big lake), and no other boats in sight. I had a wedding to attend at 3:00 that afternoon. I had plenty of time to do all of the paddling and get back in time to shower before the wedding, but I decided to skip the crossing; if anything had gone wrong or not exactly as planned, I would have been late and could have caught the wrath of my wife! Risk Homeostasis: I am not comfortable with and was not willing to take the risk of getting in that kind of trouble! Shawn >Doug's description of Bob's experience makes me wonder if the "Gotta Get Home" >syndrome is not a major cause of sea kayaking accidents. IIRC, Doug's Storm >Island incident could be attributable to this, and I remember a fatality case >out of Whittier in Alaska definitely due to the syndrome. -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 2000 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 29 2000 - 08:27:42 PST
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