On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Melissa wrote: > > Remember, folks, Rich is also, perhaps foremost, a canoeist. Rich *wishes* he had that kind of skill, but he's just a K-1 who gets in C-2 and C-1 and tries not to be so embarrassing to his boat that it dumps him and runs rivers without him. > > A canoe high brace is a very different animal. I have been known to do a > > C-boat high brace in a K-boat on occasion when the water is moving faster > > than my brain. Perhaps you, too, Rich? Uh-huh! And you know what the worst part is? There is *always* someone I know watching me do this. Sometimes many someones. <Sound of laughter coming from three different eddies as Rich forgets which kind of boat he is in...shouts of a Talking Heads lyric: "And you may ask yourself....how do I work this?"> > oh... I *was* wondering if our confusion was because we were dealing > with *evil open boater terminology syndrome* (eek! just kidding Rich! Oh, no it's much worse: it's evil *decked* C-boater syndrome. See http://www.rockandwater.net/pix/riversport-98b.jpg and note that the doofus in the stern is being gracefully tolerated by a far more skilled bow paddler. Oh...and any pictures you may come across of me in OC-1 or OC-2 are obviously faked by hostile governments intent on destroying my political career. Pay no attention to them. No one could possibly look that inept. ---Rsk Rich Kulawiec rsk_at_gsp.org *************************************************************************** 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 20 2000 - 14:17:31 PDT
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