Jack, Thanks for a wonderful post that brings us back to the core of the incident Debbie ran across: --Should she or any of us continue to go out our way to help instill in others advice that will make their paddling experience safer and rewarding? --Should we go on regardless of mixed track records and restraints on dealers in doing so and the mixed receptiveness of eager newcomers to listen and learn? Some of us will continue to push on this. I know you do when, for example, you organize coldwater workshops and Debbie does when she has people practice rescues on trips, for instance. Both of you do via PaddleWise and she in her newsletter and in her fierce devotion to that Atlantic Sea Kayakers booth at Paddlesport. I myself am at this 365 days a year in person, print and cyberspace. But there are frustrations. I know you have run into one of late and Debbie has because of this particular WetOne situation. All I can say, as a person who often is disappointed on this, is stay the course. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Mar 08 2000 - 05:30:37 PST
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