Mel Lammers wrote: >Ohio has license fees for ANY boat and there are numerous kayak and canoe >livery companies. Of course we are one of the early states (1803) and maybe >are too much under the influence of the easterners. We used to be mid-west >and I think still are as we are on the West side of the Applachian mtn >range. East side of the Rockies, hence mid-West. :-) What I meant to say was that when you really have to be able to paddle a (solo!) canoe, to get a license to actually be permitted to canoe at all, that would put canoe (probably kayak too) rental operations and the like out of business? Because I do not think a lot of people will want/be able to do that, because canoeing takes a long and hard time to learn, to do it well enough for _serieus_ licensing? If licensing does not involve (learning) canoeing/paddling skills, it would have little or nothing to do with canoeing, but only with being on the water? Perhaps/hopefully a bit safer? Dirk Barends *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jul 25 2000 - 08:35:23 PDT
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