A couple of weeks ago during the Tall Ship event in Halifax me and a bunch of my buddies had a lot of fun watching the following action. Two kayakers in Glassfiber boats pulled up on a cobble stone beach. One exited in knee deep water, waded to shore, and collected several large pieces of drift wood. These were carefully positioned on the beach above the high water line before he went back to his boat and his buddy. His friend climbed out of his boat, still in knee deep water, and both carried the first boat on the beach and put the baby to sleep on the soft drift wood bed (hopefully no hidden rusty nails). Then the did the same procedure with kayak #2. We couldn't resist to race up the stony beach a second later with our stitch and glue kayaks, getting out with dry feet. It's nice to know that a paint brush will heal most scratches, and that there is almost nothing what couldn't be fixed with a quart of epoxy (and since you built the boat you know how). Ulli, who is sometimes not nice to his kayak snip >The problem with glass boats isn't that they're fragile, it's that >their owners tend to worry about scratches. Well, not _you_, of >course, but go to a group event sometime where lots of private >boats get loaded onto trailers. The owners of new glass boats >hover around like mother hens, and test the tension of each rope >to be sure it's not putting undue pressure on their babies. And, >oh, wait, that cable is draped across my >hull, let me stick a pad in there. snip Dr. Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** 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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