Re: [Paddlewise] Paddlesports show at UNH

I don't think we met. Were you the booth with the guy carving the paddles 
right there? After a few trips around the room I began to get complete 
sensory overload, and much of the vending area is a blur to me:)

>I don't know if I met
>you, Allison, but I met a whole lot of people getting boats and gear for 
>the
>first time.

I got a little nervous thinking about all those people with new boats 
running out and trying them--that water is still pretty cold out there, and 
I overheard a lot of scary conversations by people who had never sat in a 
boat before. I hope that everyone who bought a new boat after sitting in it 
for 1 minute on the floor of the gym is happy with what they got. I talked 
to one woman on sunday who came back to get some paddle clothing after she 
dumped her new boat on Saturday and had been rather shocked by the temp et 
al...

I'm glad to see that something like this is really popular and that the 
sport seems to be thriving, but it is a telling thing when there are three 
times as many people in the seminar on how to buy a boat than in the one on 
basic navigation skills.
-A

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