RE: [Paddlewise] Kayakers helping others

 -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Hawkins [mailto:jhawkins_at_cisco.com]

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 -- "Do 
> you have any idea which way back to Santa Cruz?"  He told 
> them to hold a heading of 30 degrees and they would get 
> there.  "30 degrees?  Which way is that?"   Apparently they 
> had set out with no charts and no compass.
> 
  Last summer while returning from a multiday fishing/skiff trip I
encountered a solo kayaker about 25 miles south of Juneau.  He waved his
arms and I slowly approached - he didn't speak English very well and my
Swedish(?) isn't very good, but I eventually understood that he wanted to
know whether the inlet a mile distant was Tracy Arm - I told him no, that it
was another 20 or so miles further and then, reconsidering, gave him my
chart. 

Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska
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