Rob, you said >>Doug LLoyd wrote: >Needless to say, if you have an aversion to dramatic sea stories, don't come over to my wife's parents place for Sunday dinner when my father-in-law's brothers and I are around!>>> >What's for dinner? Sounds like a fun and informative time. I have learned all sorts of "what not to do"'s from your posts, and a lot of "What to do if"'s. Keep on posting your "horror" stories.< Yeah, dinners are great, but Birthdays are a sham. Last year they gave me a toy Coast Guard vessel, complete with zodiac rescue boat and "man overboard" figurine. Very funny people, those relatives are! The Birthday card was even worse. As far as "horror" stories (or as Kevin Whilden calls them "my unlimited storehouse of adventure stories" - or some such thing), I do have lots more. Most will never "BCeen" :-). I will share some of the more publicly digestible ones as I see fit and feel the integrity of the list is maintained. I don't consider them "horror" stories -- at least not in the sense of sensationalized sea drama. They are very real events that have transpired over the many years of exhaustive experience with rough water. I wince at the notion that anyone would think I post stuff to gain notoriety. I predicate my life on helping others and offering illumination of my errors out of a pedagogical predisposition.( I posted something to another list a month or two ago, one I "lurk" on, mentioning to folks to be careful about late Spring/early Summer paddling -- as that is a time when kayakers are likely to get into trouble and even die. I felt like a friggin fool, but posted anyway.) Well, between the twin self-assertions of mine above, I'd like to add that I do suffer a problem with the sublimation of impulses, which can get one into trouble from time to time -- both with respect to why I get into trouble in the first place at sea; and secondly, why I sometimes post a personal or group incident on the spur of a moment. Well, I better get outta here before Kevin notices me defending myself again <g>. (Glad he's back on the list - whish he'd do more articles for SK Magazine). At least I can offer my experience -- perhaps without the expertise of guys like Matt -- but, at least I don't usually prattle on about anarchistic ideas of world-negation and negativistic paddle eschatology. One thing I will leave you with: It is far easier to get into trouble, than it is to get out of it! Oh God, how I know that. Paddle safely friend. BC'in Ya Doug Lloyd *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded 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 13 2000 - 23:53:49 PDT
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