At 07:14 PM 9/17/01 -0700, Kathea and Ken wrote: > Did any of you attend the West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium in Port Townsend >last weekend? I was there, and the attendance was pitiful. The beach on >Saturday was fairly busy, but the workshops were generally poorly attended, >and the exhibitors in the big tent were trying to sell stuff to each other. >I'm wondering why: Was it the terrorist activity last week, or poor >publicity, or is kayaking on the decline, or what? It seems to me that >attendance has been declining slightly for the last couple of years, but this >was a big drop. The Great Lakes symposium in July was way down, too. I don't go every year, and had missed a couple years, but it was notably smaller than then. A lot of people had ideas about why attendance was down, but nothing that really stuck. -- Wes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Boyd's Kayak Place http://www2.dmci.net/wesboyd/kayak.htm Kayaks for Big Guys (And Gals) | Trip Reports | Places To Go | Boats & Gear --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 18 2001 - 09:08:06 PDT
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