[Paddlewise] Tim's Heart

It is really kind of sad that Tim has given himself such a bad 
reputation. I truly believe his heart is in the right place. He has 
just chosen a very bad way of making his point. As a whole the 
kayaking industry could probably do a better job of communicating the 
risks of kayaking, and Tim's sponsons have a place in making the 
sport safer.

While Tim may be delusional regarding the ranking sponsons should be 
given in the safety hierarchy I don't think he is promoting their use 
for his own personal financial gain. I think he really believes 
everyone should use sponsons because it will make them safer and it 
shocks him that people don't fall to their knees before him in 
gratitude. And the more people disagree with him the more defined his 
belief becomes. While it seems to us that he twists every subject 
back to sponsons, to him everything does have to do with sponsons and 
he is trying in vain to make people see that.

We can only hope that someone Tim really trusts will one day convince 
him to give it a rest. It must be a sad life believing that the world 
out there is full of wanton murderers ready to let people drown just 
to make a few bucks.

Nick


At 6:41 PM -0700 4/29/01, Doug Lloyd wrote:
>Tom said:
>
><<<<
>Thanks to all for the backchannel tips on how to get to
>rec.boat.paddle.  I got there from google, but apparently
>there are a few ways to get there.   There was loads of
>sp*ns*n ranting.   Has this been non-stop for the last 5
>years?  WOW!
>>>>>
>
>Tom,
>The rec.boat spams by sponsonspoilsport recently intrigued me enough to
>check out Tim's web site. I have not been near it for some time. He has
>used quotes and incidents from a number of my articles for SK Mag, out
>of context,  to promote his rescue device. I caved in and actually
>e-mailed him over his misuse. Constructively, I also attempted to
>communicate with him on an altruistic level, seeing as how he is on a
>apparent-at-first-sight crusade for kayaker safety. For context, I
>wanted some information from Tim regarding an article I'm doing up on
>the kite sailing kayaker who died. Tim responded with more hyperbole,
>and categorically stated my culpability and "strong record of
>stupidity". In the same breath, he stated both I and SK Mag as guilty of
>murderous action toward innocent people. I never really understood the
>meaning of the word spam, being relatively new to e-mail and not ever
>getting much in my inbox. Now I understand what Jackie was talking
>about.
>
-- 
Nick Schade
Guillemot Kayaks
824 Thompson St
Glastonbury, CT 06033
(860) 659-8847

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