At 10:25 AM 3/13/2001 -0500, ralph diaz wrote: > I often wonder what they think of us. And, of late, I wonder what >they would make of Doug Lloyd with his elaborate deck rigging, diving knife. >Sea Seat et al. > >ralph diaz It is really upsetting and sad. Kind of like: If they had only been wearing their seat belts! We recently took a group of people on a three day trip and one couple, who have nice fiberglass boats and carbon fiber paddles, had to be told that they had to wear their pfd's. They were incredulous and thought it over the top that we would insist that they have them on while on the water. The rest of us including one very new paddler had on Paddle tops, farmer johns and of course PFD's. The air temp was cool, not warm and the water temp about 52 degrees. People like this think that we are extremist until such time that they discover that it would have been nice to have on a PFD, Paddle Top and Wet Suit. Hopefully it is an opportunity for a learning experience for them and not the lesson of a life time. Fred *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 08:03:22 PST
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