"Whyte, David" wrote: > <snip> > > Ah but Doug there won't be the same prestige as writing for Paddlewise > Speaking of prestige and writing in the same breath, if anyone on the list has access to the latest Wavelength Magazine issue, Doug Simpson has a great little piece about the brief history of his company, Feathercraft (available on-line, but requires a PDF download unfortunately - until next month). He talks about how his company made up mock kayaks with see-through materials in order to study the flow of water over the skin and so help design boats (how about that Mr Winters?). He also goes on to defend his use of aluminum as a frame material, but sites the fact that there is "some question about the advisability of using this material in a sea environment". He specifically references New york as the source of some of this derision. Is that you ralph? Whoever is bad mouthing aluminum better not let our Bob Meyers hear them :-). I met Doug S. years ago for the first time, testing a proto type during the very early eighties. He was out doing some long-range paddling, testing a new hull design. Now _he is_ a noteworthy "Doug" if there is one. I can think of a few more kayak personalities that rarely write articles. I wish more would. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to the next Sea Kayaker magazine issue due out any moment. I understand you have a picture on the front cover. Congratulations David! They are doing a bit of a feature on paddling down-under. BTW David, our local newspaper cartoon artist had a drawing a couple of weeks back of an Olympic kayak race. The paddlers were paddling with the boats upside-down, and the caption read above the spectators: "Oh, that's the Aussie team". :-) Cheers, Doug *************************************************************************** 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 Oct 19 2000 - 22:16:25 PDT
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