[Paddlewise] PaddleWise Announcement

Hello fellow paddlewisers,

Many of you are aware that PaddleWise was established four years ago
out of a need for a semi-moderated paddling list where ideas, questions,
knowledge, suggestions, trip-reports about paddling could be posted in
a friendly environment and where paddlers could connect and arrange
paddling trips with one-another.  After four years of maintaining 
PaddleWise, I've decided to "retire." :-)  Kirk Olsen, list-owner for 
several years to the baidarka list, will be taking over as list-owner 
to PaddleWise.  We are in the transitioning phase right now.  We are
indeed fortunate that Kirk has agreed to accept this responsibility 
and I would like to thank him.  

I wanted to say that you folks are a great group and I have been very 
proud to be list-owner to PaddleWise, the best world-wide paddling list 
around.  You make it so.  It is the valuable contributions of its 
members that is the life-blood of PaddleWise and I want to thank all 
those who have contributed to making PaddleWise what it is today.  Thanks 
to all the original folks who demonstrated their confidence and trust in 
a somewhat reluctant list-owner attempting to launch a new list by jumping 
in with their enthusiastic posts from the very start.  The generosity of
PaddleWisers, your willingness to share knowledge, experiences, and 
stories with others as well as houses to traveling paddlers from around
the world, never ceases to amaze me :-)  It's a true joy.

Thanks, folks.  You are the best :-)  And a big thanks to Bob Myers 
whose expertise brought not only PaddleWise, but other padding lists 
on-line as well as the PaddleWise and GASP websites.

Happy paddling!

Jackie

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