Re: [Paddlewise] Question for the engineers

From: John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:59:06 -0500
At 06:46 PM 1/27/02 +0000, Wes Boyd wrote:
>Had a pleasant paddle this afternoon, down the backwater of a small dam.
>Nice, easy mid-January inland paddle with a couple of friends -- a nice
>thing to do in a time of year that most years sees all too much ice, snow,
>and time spent on the computer rather than out in the big world.
>
>After the paddle was over, we were sitting on the back of his boathouse,
>taking in the sun and relaxing muscles too long gone unused, and one of us
>mentioned a guy that he'd seen or read somewhere that had used a Smoker
>canoe as the body of a Bonneville salt flats racer -- powered, I presume,
>by a honking V-8.

I just recently saw a picture of this.  I think it was the latest issue of 
either "Sea Kayaker" or "Canoe & Kayak" magazine.


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