----- Original Message ----- From: <Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com> > > > I hear and understand your point, but I think the example is a bit > misleading. How many P'Wisers own more than one boat and transfer > floats, pumps etc between them depending on which boat they will be > paddling that day? I know you meant your question to answer the point about a retailer selling 40 boats and just 5 paddle floats; i.e. that ratio may not mean anything. However, you did raise an interesting question. I have each boat pretty much equipped with specific essentials: a paddle, a paddlefloat, a pump, a spray skirt, flotation, paddle leash, empty watter bottle, an empty dry bag (and for almost all the boats, separate PFDs). Several reasons: the boats are generally in bags that I just want to grab and go. And so, those things are there (all I need to add is appropriate clothing, food, water, other gear and repair/emergency kit); if I need to lend out a boat to some one, it is pretty much basically equipped for essential gear to make the thing go and a modicum of safety equipment and even a dry bag to put some extra clothing (their own). It may sound expensive but, since I have added the items as I get a new boat, I hardly feel the shock of the added cost. The PFDs are older models that I know still have life in them (some haven't and were discarded as unfit). ralph diaz-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jan 25 2002 - 10:57:12 PST
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