another way of making an estimate: I know most of the paddlers around here ("paddler" being somebody who owns a sea kayak and has used it at least 4-5 times that I can recall). There are about 40-50, using those criteria. The total population hereabouts is about 30,000. That makes about 0.17% sea kayak paddlers. Double that, figuring maybe I only know half the local paddlers. So that's 0.34% Apply that to the entire US population (250,000,000) and you get about 400,000 paddlers of the sea kayak variety. I bet that is way more realistic than 21 million (or whatever it was). I think 400,000 is high, but that's just intuition speaking. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 - 16:45:14 PDT
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