I am sending this over from nyckayaker to Paddlewise mainly because it gives a good flavor for what it is like to circumnavigate Manhattan. This was the Round Manhattan swim a week ago in which kayakers play a pivotal role in navigation, keeping them from danger and extracting them if things go wrong. The beginning photos are at the Downtown Boathouse at around 6 am which serves as the staging area for the kayaks, some 35 to 40 in all. Note that large cruise ship going up river in the early morning hours. Also one photo captioned "a rough Hudson River" doesn't do justice to the conditions...photos often flatten out rough water. Waves were reported by several reliable sources to be 3 feet high with many cross wakes and wind. The rougher conditions slowed the swimmers a lot and finishing times were several hours longer than in previous races. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <owner-nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org> Received: from goat.envirolink.org ([216.205.90.210]) by mail01.dfw.mindspring.net (Mindspring/Netcom Mail Service) with ESMTP id slc40o.vaq.33qs885 Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goat.envirolink.org (Switch-2.0.5/Switch-2.0.5) with SMTP id e5PExjc32515; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:59:45 -0500 Received: from galadrial.creativeonline.com ([209.31.171.11]) by goat.envirolink.org (Switch-2.0.5/Switch-2.0.5) with ESMTP id e5PEwwc32484 for <nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:58:58 -0500 Received: from pavilion ([165.254.158.142]) by galadrial.creativeonline.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# LEGENDS-1997LS) with SMTP id AAA210 for <nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:07:50 -0400 Message-ID: <00d001bfdead$46ff2ce0$8e9efea5_at_pavilion> From: "Moses Fridlich" <mofrid_at_mail.creativeonline.com> To: <nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org> Subject: Mahattan Island Swim Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:56:47 -0400 Organization: Strivers for Better Humanity MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Reply-To: mofrid_at_mail.creativeonline.com Sender: owner-nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.92b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain For those of you that are interested in seeing some of the impressions made by the swim here is a link of some of the pictures that we took. They will give you a good view of what the swim is all about. These are just the first ones that came back, I will update them when I receive others. Mo Click on- or cut and paste: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=224494&a=6914673 *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jun 26 2000 - 09:17:42 PDT
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