sandy kramer wrote: >>>>>>if you find out....what's with the "writer of children's stories" that I saw in the John Dowd quote message?<<<<< As well as having been a market hunter in his native New Zealand, doing some incredible and long distance sea kayaking expeditions in locations around the world (including one that, at the time, was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest ever--8000 miles, South America to Florida by island hopping through the Caribbean with up to 80 mile long open water crossings--where if they were swept too far off course by the wind and the strong currents it was 500 miles of open water to Mexico--and the Ralph's should like this--to make it even harder they did it in, gasp, folding doubles;-), writing the first North American sea kayaking how-to book, "Sea Kayaking", starting and editing Sea Kayaker magazine (actually, I think his wife and paddling partner Bea Dowd did most of the real editing), starting and running a retail sea kayaking store (Ecomarine Ocean Kayaks in Vancouver, BC) and importing and wholesaling, I believe, Klepper and Nautiraid kayaks, and then after retiring from both Sea Kayaker magazine and Ecomarine, John Dowd has among other things also now written some children's books. The only one I've seen and read so far was "Abalone Summer" an adventure story for young folks that includes kayaking youngsters stumbling on to a poaching ring while kayaking and then bringing them to justice. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jun 27 2001 - 22:18:37 PDT
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