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From: Shawn Baker <shawnkayak_at_yahoo.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Fiberglass jitters- deck and hull upkeep
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT)
Kevin Nelson wrote:
>But I will tell anyone who cares to listen, I don't want no flamin'
scratches on my strip built, 

If it comes down to the choice, I'll scratch my strip built rather than
my person 100 times out of 100.

>you don't ever ever ever drag my SOF through the sand. 
>This polite forum forbids me to express my feelings about dragging 
kayaks through rocks. 

There's a difference between use and abuse.  If you can reasonably
avoid it, and still do the damage, it's abuse.  If you're out having
fun with it, and stuff happens, that's use, and experience for the
paddler. It's all worth it in the grand scheme of things.  Again,
dif'rent strokes for dif'rent folks.

Shawn

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From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Fiberglass jitters- deck and hull upkeep
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 18:13:29 -0400
Shawn Baker wrote:
> 
> Kevin Nelson wrote:
> >But I will tell anyone who cares to listen, I don't want no flamin'
> scratches on my strip built,
> 
> If it comes down to the choice, I'll scratch my strip built rather than
> my person 100 times out of 100.

Reminds me of my first trip in a new WW canoe, lining up to run Edge of
the World, a Class IV on the Amicolola River in North Georgia. "Let's
see, where will I need to be to ensure I don't put any scratches on my
new hull?  What am I saying? Where do I need to be to ensure I don't put
any scratches on my helmet?!"

-- 
Steve Cramer
Athens, GA
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From: Aaron White <aaronwhite_at_mn.rr.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Fiberglass jitters- deck and hull upkeep
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:12:21 -0500
My Current Designs Extreme is about two months old and has 
already taken a pretty good beating to the deck and hull.  At about 
the two year mark I imagine it will sink.  I guess you can count me 
in the "drive it, er, I mean 'paddle it' like ya ain't got a dime in it" 
club.  :-)  
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