[Paddlewise] Death boats?

Ralph's recent post about "A Ghost in Every Kayak" kind of shook me for a moment.
I'm a grungy, disreputable kayak fisherman in Southern California, so like my
peers, I paddle a plastic sit-on-top - a lime-green Scupper Pro in my case, almost
as fast as a "real" kayak.

I bought it used from the third (I think) owner. He told me that owner #2 got  it
when owner #1 disappeared. Apparently #1 was a party animal who decided, while high
on something very late one night in Ensenada, to go for a paddle. They found the
kayak several days later, many many miles south of town on the coast. They never
found him.

I don't usually think too much about it; just once in a while when my mind is not
otherwise occupied. But Ralph's post made me wonder: what happens to other boats
that have been involved in fatalities. No Viking funerals, right? Anybody else
paddle one? Feel funny paddling it?



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