On Thu, 4 May 2000, Christine Allison wrote: > 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 think windsurfing slid to it's current location because of the learning curve and the lack of entry level gear. You basically need to spend $1000 to get started and then spend about 12 hours falling in before you could move. I've still got the windsurfing gear, it's gathering dust in the garage. I got good enough that I only wanted to windsurf if there were 25+ knot winds. I also got "skunked" regularly windsurfing. I would drive 2 hours to where the wind should have been blowing only to find flat conditions. If I had been planning to paddle it would have been great. With a kayak nearly anyone can paddle, I took our son out in a canoe when he was 3 weeks old, I also took my 92 year old grandmother out paddling. At my great aunts house in Maine there's now a collection of keowee's down on the beach, roughly 8 of them. It's common to see all of them out on the water at the same time, with a wide range of occupants - infants through grandparents. All just puttering around. For some that's all they seek in a paddling experience, paddle 20 yards off shore and float amongst the lobster bouys. They only need enough boat to stay dry - 2 keowees for $500 is perfect for them. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 - 08:49:25 PDT
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