> PeterO wrote: > Heh Richard how did you guess? Thats my 1st boat 45 years ago - builders > plank, two wooden blocks and an iron bar for a paddle - on a duck pond!! My first was about thirty-five years ago. An emply oil drum with driftwood tied to it. No paddle. On Oak Bay of the Bay of Fundy. Out from shore with the tide, and then back in again a few hours later. Had me hooked for life! I do have a friend who will quite happily swim along side the boat for a day rather than paddle: "The water and air were so warm that Martina decided to not paddle the next day. I paddled. She swam. We had discussed what to do in case we lost the canoe, which would put us in an uncomfortable but non-life threatening position. I suggested that we could wait a few weeks until our rescue coordinator realized that we were overdue, or we could walk out, depending on where we were. Tina said, "Why not just swim out." I thought that she was joking. I was mistaken. Perhaps Martina was onto a new sport: wilderness marathon swimming. Who needs canoes?" "I asked her if she was worried about getting a cramp, sinking, drowning, and leaving me with the provisions all to myself. She replied that she was the Princess of the Bavarian Forest, and that ones such as herself did not cramp. "Besides," she said with her thick Bavarian accent as she stood up in the middle of the lake to be handed a sweet, "the water is only four feet deep."" >From "Kattawagami Untouched" chapter "On the Beach" at http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4444/beach.html Cheers, Richard Culpeper *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 30 2002 - 20:04:18 PST
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