I wrote: >>>Note: I realized that it must have been in 1986 or 1987 that I saw the manuscript rather than 1983 or 1984 as I had guessed earlier. I'm at home and my copy is at work or I'd check the copyright date and quit guessing.<<< The copyright was in 1985 and I remember it was out by Sept., so it must have been 1984 or very early 1985 that I read the manuscript. The present version of that book complete with the drawings colorized and several updates is now called "Expedition Kayaking" fourth edition. As to the broken kayak 5 km. offshore: Maybe they somehow got a loaded kayak across the deck of another kayak to dump out the water but the heavy ends combined with a fragile midsection just did it in. That's about all I could picture given the obvious damaged area. Then again, maybe a Great White Shark rammed it from below. This has happened in So. CA and the damage was similar. Suspect we would have heard about it had it been a shark though. Matt Broze 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/ ***************************************************************************
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