>> Also, a really engaging article about paddling down-under by Norm Sanders, complete with a trip report, gear/boat/skill/gender issues, paddling politics, and a host of other items that one would normally consider far to parochial for a wide-audienced publication -- yet it forms the heart and sole of the article and adds immeasurably in describing the Aussie paddling scene. Congrats to SK for publishing it. Norm hits the nail on the head for every point he covers - even gets the crock attack in there. >> One thing that raised my eyebrows was Norm's conclusion that the land of Oz lacks women sea kayakers because of a lack of sit-on-top kayaks there, which seems a bit naive, if not sexist, to me. I can only conclude it's a result of his meeting several women on sit-on-tops in California, which he wrote up in the NSWSKC newsletter a few years ago. Here in Minnesota, a large proportion of sea kayakers (and whitewater kayakers) are women, despite a similar lack of sit-on-tops. In his NSWSKC newsletter article, Norm made several generalizations about the sea kayaking scene in America, based on his West Coast trip, that simply do not apply, at least to the same degree, on the East Coast and in the Great Lakes states, where the BCU influence is fairly strong. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Nov 08 2000 - 08:14:21 PST
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