To put a different slant on this.... People in general like boats and water sports. For various reasons including some ridiculous environmental legislation (in my estimation) lack of vision and failure to embrace evolving technology, people who would otherwise have bought a daysailer or small outboard runabout are buying paddle boats. Not because of any commitment to muscle power but because it's the only form of boat which offers convenient access to the water and economical ownership/maintenance. I will pull no punches here... I count myself among these people I am afraid we are going to see a lot of unfortunate accidents and degrading of the environment as the current fashionable mania for paddelsports develops. Paddelsports may go the course of Windsurfing which collapsed due to a Hi-tech mania and it's media conspicuous testosterone/macho pumped up proponents. I might also point out the PWC's promised economical convenient access to the water. They did indeed and brought a plague on boaters of all persuasions. Richard G. Smith *************************************************************************** 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 Thu May 04 2000 - 06:23:35 PDT
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