Doug Lloyd wrote: > > > I take it that it is easier to bail a large cockpited double folder with a hand > bailer, like a canoe would be bailed. Is this the norm, or do folders use hand pumps - > or both? I have both for my double. I have a friend who has several battery operated pumps. He carries them in a bailer, for just in case the batteries are dead or give out. :-) > > > When > > I have heard him talk on the East Coast in that same lecture he usually > > has the double flipping over easily, especially a foldable, because of > > their width. :-) > > Yeah, he had everybody that doesn't paddle a narrow Greenland style kayak, flipping > over and drowning due to dynamic instability. This went way beyond doubles and > folders, Ralph! Yeap, them thar "Puget Panzers" were a might bit dangerous. He then > shows slides of some rough rock gardens with lots of crashing waves, and says these > folks in the slides are all dynamically stable, having the time of their lives ("see", > he says, "look at those big grins") and then adds for effect, "and they are all > novices". Ken must be a friend of Kevin's, the very predudicial KK Klan. :-) I have a coffee mug with a quote from Francis Bacon on it "Nothing moderate is pleasing to the crowd" I think Ken does some of this for effect, to rib people. When he is caught in contradictions he does take it with a sense of humor. > > > BTW, in Ken's one visit to NYC to paddle we managed > > to get him into a double Klepper for the trip to the Statue with his > > wife. It is a boat he normally mocks in a congenial way as the example > > in his lecture regarding doubles as I mention above. > > I hope you got a picture of that! I bet he got better pictures himself though, than he > has ever gotten before in one of his "static-stabiliy challenged" seal chasers. No, I don't. But someone else did take a photo and I think is blackmailing him. I avoid such blackmail on me when caught paddling a hardshell (which I do on occasion) by making certain to have my Groucho Marx to quickly whip on to my face, cigar, raised eyebrows and all. best, ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 28 2000 - 16:38:05 PDT
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