At 10:03 PM 5/3/02 -0700, Sid Taylor wrote: > >How many people actually tour kayak as opposed to day trip? Are they >competent, equiped paddlers or inexperienced and ill-equiped? > I seem to remember that for this figure a paddler is defined as someone who has been in a boat more than once in that year. Say, 2 paddler-days. I know that the figures for the Upper Delaware are enormous. You get 100s and 100s of thousands of paddlers along that stretch per year. A large percentage are private paddlers.... But certainly this is not the same as the 'hard-core' paddler. That number is much smaller and seems to be stable. Sales of rec kayaks and similar boats have taken off here in NJ. Local dealers I know say that they've sold hundreds of SOTs, for example. Yet there's been no increase in club memberships to speak of. BTW this seems to be changing now... One dealer mentioned that last year's sales were lower than the previous year and so far there hasn't been much interest this Spring. Maybe the market's saturated here... Joe P. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon May 06 2002 - 09:34:33 PDT
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