Kayaking and bookbinding. Still trying to incorporate the two somehow... Courtney (who's obviously having a slow day at work!) _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
At 12:46 PM 7/19/00 -0700, Courtney wrote: >Kayaking and bookbinding. Still trying to incorporate the two somehow... A leather bound kayak. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>At 12:46 PM 7/19/00 -0700, Courtney wrote: >>Kayaking and bookbinding. Still trying to incorporate the two somehow... >At 08:44 PM 7/19/00 -0400, John Fereira wrote: >A leather bound kayak. > Silly that is called a skin boat Dana *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
I train and race on bicycles, cross country ski. Kayaking was supposed to extend the fitness from the former to the latter. It ends up being my favorite thing to do and requires me to take the yak far and wide. bob phillips SE MI *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Jack- You certainly were inspired. Someone once brought it to my attention that I "bound" my kayak (stitch and glue Chesapeake LT 17). It's one big book of action. Courtney On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:25:37 EDT, JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Thought I'd leave paddlewise out of it, but how 'bout --- > > Bind-arka > Stitch'n'Glue > Nordbakk > First Addition > > It's late --- sorry, I was inspired! > > Jack *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
This is a nice thread. I have enjoyed reading what you folks do. As for myself, my primary passion for two decades has been sailing. I sometimes am a crewmember (mainsail handler) on a race boat, but mostly do liesurely cruising. I am currently building a 32 foot cruising boat (from an old hull), and sailing a 15 foot daysailor in the meantime. But paddling has become a new passion. I have a canoe and three kayaks. I also love to hike. Have done sections of the AT over the years, and dream of doing a thru-hike. I love bird-watching, too. I have a woodshop and dabble in woodworking (used to have a professional cabinet shop, years ago). That's about it. . . and work. Mark *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
I like to make stuff. In fact, last night (1 a.m.), I was sewing a cockpit cover for the stitch n' glue North Bay I just finished after modifying a tow belt I made a couple of months ago. Today a rack for boat storage. Plans for skin boat, stripper and foldable not necessarily in that order are on the drawing board. I have a reasonably large studio which includes a machine shop and woodworking studio. I photograph. I have been doing 'street' photography for almost 25 years which has evolved into the daily journal website below. I paint. This has been in a bit of an hiatus for the last year, but will continue when I get my studio settled. Guitar player, but should devote more time to that. RAgtime, Blues fingerpicking styles primarily. This does not correlate with my taste in music however, which also plays a rather large part of my life. I read a fair amount, mostly art criticism ( was very confused when a poster was looking for a solution for paddle placement because s/he did not like the way visually the water broke over the bow with the paddle interruption- the reason was, s/he was an artist and implied a sensitivity to these things. I have been trying to find some source which denotes some correlation with Art and Aesthetics. Not much in the past few decades.). This has taken me through some research in linguistics, design, and history. I do a bit of biking. Spend too much time on the computer with imaging, research and things. -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://users.aol.com/romeugp paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
--- "Sailboat Restorations, Inc." <sailboatrestorations_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I also love to hike. Have done sections of the AT over the years, > > and dream of doing a thru-hike. Hey Mark, have you read Bill Bryson's book, A Walk In The Woods? (Broadway Books, ISBN 0-7679-0251-3). This is a wonderful book, whether you're a hiker or not, and/or have never been near the AT. For those familiar with the AT, this is about his hikes over many sections of the trail. Highly entertaining! :-) Melissa Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
In addition to sea kayaking, I also enjoy whitewater boating, for entirely different reasons.... Now, to commit sacrilege: I recently took up downhill skiing, as much as a midwesterner can. I've discovered that I get as much of a charge from downhill skiiing as I do from kayaking, and maybe even more. I had kind of an epiphany while standing at the top of the hill at Vail a few years back in a snowstorm over New Years, and I could easily flip a coin as to whether I get in some quality time on the slopes, spend a weekend on Lake Superior, or do the Ocoee River. It's all incredible. I *do* notice some similarities between downhill skiing and whitewater boating, though... I think the thing that links all of these together is a good dose of fresh air and the company of friends. I've *never* met a person on the water or on the slopes that I didn't like. Have a good weekend, all- tm *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Todd Miller wrote: <SNIP> >>>I *do* notice some similarities between downhill skiing and whitewater boating, though... I think the thing that links all of these together is a good dose of fresh air and the company of friends.<<< <SNIP> If you haven't tried it yet you might want to add downhill single track Mountain Biking to your list. To me the similarities of them all are the adrenaline rush (in fresh air) that comes from moving very fast, powered by gravity, where there is no way to stop immediately and lots of things you need to dodge quickly coming at you--real fast. I find the totally focused concentration and split second decision making and physical reaction (while faced with the possibility it is really going to hurt if you screw up) to be heady stuff indeed. I'd include surf kayaking with whitewater too. Matt Broze Author of "Freestyle Skiing" (1972) and "Deep Trouble" (1997) (a recovering adrenaline junky--who fell off the wagon and went mountain biking the other day, alone, so much for the "company of friends" Todd mentioned) http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Matt Broze said (in a rather unusually friendly and fantastically fun way): <snip Todd's remark> <<If you haven't tried it yet you might want to add downhill single track Mountain Biking to your list. To me the similarities of them all are the adrenaline rush (in fresh air) that comes from moving very fast, powered by gravity, where there is no way to stop immediately and lots of things you need to dodge quickly coming at you--real fast. I find the totally focused concentration and split second decision making and physical reaction (while faced with the possibility it is really going to hurt if you screw up) to be heady stuff indeed. I'd include surf kayaking with whitewater too...Matt Broze Author of "Freestyle Skiing" (1972) and "Deep Trouble" (1997) (a recovering adrenaline junky--who fell off the wagon and went mountain biking the other day, alone, so much for the "company of friends" Todd mentioned)>> For me, there are no aspects of sea kayaking that I consider off-limits, as long as you approach the said sea kayaking activity with prudence, training, dedication, skill development, etc, etc. What other activities do I do other than sea kayak. Well, there are three main ones: As well as "tour" sea kayak, I "storm" sea kayak, I "surf" sea kayak, and I "solo-sanity" kayak. Hey, those are all "sea kayaking". Geesh, I guess I don't do much else other than sea kayak. Guess you could call me a "free boater", which is the popular slang up here in Canuk land, that the new bread of "river runner" white water kayakers are now applying to themselves. It means you can work the river whatever the hell way you want to. You can take out from a different places than a put in and work the river wherever you want to. You can spin, boof, or wave wheel -- or do whatever you want. Like snowboarding's free boarding or skiing's 'free skiing', you can freestyle anyway you want, in any fashion you want. You can also just be mellow and casual when you want to be too. Oh, and Matt's rejoiner. Yeah, I've done a lot of mountain biking too. Had to give up the downhill stuff though -- got tooooo addicted to it. Forget the downhill single-track stuff. Been there, did that wussy stuff for awhile. I went way more extreme. I "progressed" to Fire Roads -- or simply, old abandoned logging roads -- steep, tormented, rain washed gullies with 500 foot vertical side drops and mean cut-backs with ravine wash-outs . I'd travel by car for miles into deep wilderness, find a big tall mountain (which Vancouver Island has a ton of steep ones), spend hours and hours peddling up, then come racing down, solo, at breakneck speeds, completing descent in mere minutes. Man, the rims I went through, the tires, the tubes, the skin off my shinny shin shin! Narrowly missed a few bears here and there - made 'em crap their blueberries. Finally, the jarring to my shoulders was too severe. And, my wife put her big foot down. Alas, the end of my "free biking". Doug Lloyd Author of "Freestyle Sex Kayaking" (direct to internet) and "Deep Drivel" (unpublished). (a recurring adrenaline junkie who busted off his bow's keel strip today while surfing BC ferry wake into a reef off tiny Newcastle Island while paddling with a company of timid environmentalists from the Georgia Straight Alliance - tenth anniversary celebration weekend - who headed to deeper water). *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Reading all of these posts on what activities we do and all that fresh air made it difficult to get back to the computer (too much fresh air to chase). Probably my favorite activity (besides freestyle sex while downhill kayaking on narrow single track fireroads) of the last few years has been bicycling, an addiction I picked up after I quit track racing (running)and missed the adreneline (let alone the extra weight that my affinity for food and beer brought me) and unlike Bob's experience in Florida, here in the Pacific Northwest cycling is a fairly safe activity (ride about 8-12,000 miles per year and only get car tagged about every 2-3 years, with the last tag being up in Canada - bad drivers great nurses). My other addictions are paddling, primarily sea kayaking, especially the touring variety, using my mountain bike to explore new areas, playing with my friends in pretty much any sport, making beer and cheese or eating them, not sure which ranks higher, and back country x.c. skiing. My favorite long paddles have been in Baja and in Alaska (I used to live at 28 mile up in Juneau as a kid), while my favorite short paddles are whenever I'm on the water. See you outside playing - Saul The author of no books, featured in Matt's book on stupid things kayakers do while paddling in storms and exhibiting poor judgement, and not listed in any of Dougs on-line drivel, and a daily reader and enjoyer of Paddlewise ;-) __ © o -\_<, < \/ (*)/'(*) / 0 /> ______©/_______ Saul Kinderis / ` / ' saul_at_isomedia.com ^~^~^~^~^~^ 0 ^~^~^~^~^~^~ My web page is at: http://www.isomedia.com/homes/saul (425)402-3426 POB 2221, Bothell, WA, 98041 *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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