Richard, How about sharing a bit more detail from the local paper, The Staten Island Advance I presume. I know nothing about this. The general advice this week on nyckayaker listserve by me and others was not to be kayaking that day as conditions were decidedly unsafe for a kayaker with all those large ships and motorboats in the harbor. The Downtown Boathouse closed down tight with the fence locked and a sturdy barrier put across the ramp leading down from the pier to the floating kayak dock. A few of us were watching the Tall Ship parade. Early on we saw an inflatable Stern kayak going down river prior to the parade. During the parade itself three kayakers came down from northern Manhattan (the Dyckman official kayak put-in). They came to the kayak dock, were told the place was closed, they jumped the barrier to use the portasan, then proceeded to eat lunch on the smaller of the two docks. I mentioned to them that they would be bucking a strong ebb current when they paddled back north to Dyckman St. They said they had no intention of paddling back right then but rather were going to hang around for the fireworks later and had sufficient lights for night paddling. I don't know who they were although I believe I may have seen them once before. Some abandoned kayaks are serious business. I am sending this all to nyckayaker listserve in case someone over there may shed some light on this. Sounds like shades of what Jack Martin was talking about on the Potomac this week with an abandoned kayak floating around. Could be that some kayaks were stolen. Or mischievist people floated away some kayaks they found. Or some kayakers did not secure their kayaks well enough at a landing site and these got washed away by some big boat wakes, a distinct possibility anywhere in the harbor and on the Hudson. ralph diaz Christine Allison wrote: > > A fellow worker and my local Staten Island news paper made mention of > several abandoned kayaks which were observed in the harbor near the > Verazzano bridge around 6:00PM on July 4th. There were no other details. > > Does anyone know anything about this? > > Richard Smith > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not > to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission > Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net > Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 07:00:49 PDT
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