The discussion of methods for taking water temp leads me to wonder what temperature water are paddlewisers paddling in? What is the water temperature around Vancouver Island, Maine, Florida, NZ, Washington, and even the Mediterranean? Here in wintry Melbourne, Australia, the nearby river is 10 degrees C (as measured by my pool thermometer dropped in the top 10 cm, Port PhillipBay12.1, and the ocean, 14.1. Air temp is 12. Just finished reading F. Spencer Chapman's book "Watkins Last Expedition", which has some great material about paddling E. Greenland in 1932/3. Soon after arriving in Angmagssalik, Watkins "spent about 3 hours a day rolling my kayak...", in water around 0 degrees. I feel a wimp gritting my teeth to roll in ten degree water! PT. *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jul 07 2002 - 04:47:22 PDT
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