At 02:42 PM 9/24/00 -0700, ralph diaz wrote: >Wes Boyd wrote: >> > >One thing struck me...their ages. The two guys were 20 and 22. I have >been scratching my head to recall _anyone_ I know under the age of 25 >who sea kayaks. I have hardly run across anyone under 30 in the sport. >Most paddlers that I have run across are in their mid-30s and up. The >sea kayaking community on the East Coast, at least the many hundreds I >have met, are an older lot. Based on all the symposiums that I've been to I've noticed that sea kayakers tend to be a bit older as well, but there doesn't seem to be an upper limit. It's also interesting to note how many paddlers didn't start they were past 40. However, living in a college town I do see quite a few of the students coming down to my friends shop to rent a boat for the day. I don't see that many of them that get into it more seriously, and fewer still that buy their own boats (or have their parents buy them one). *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 25 2000 - 04:57:45 PDT
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