Nick's tale of near-collision with a fast-moving rowing shell "struck home" with me. Just a few days ago I was paddling back toward a put-in on the inlet to Cayuga lake here in central NY, as the Cornell crew was practicing. Only one shell was near me, and I moved far toward the right side of the channel to give them plenty of room. They were really "booking"! Woudn't ya know it, when they were about 20 yards from me they suddenly (!) veered to their left, aiming right at me. Like Nick, I powered out of their way, and collision was just barely avoided. I'm not sure how they managed to change direction as abruptly as they did - and I'm not sure they were even aware of how close we came to colliding. Testosterone is such a wonderful thing. Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Mar 11 2000 - 08:15:02 PST
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