Re: [Paddlewise] POST SCRIPT to: Into Winter Mode -- water/air temperatures a...

From: <FoldingBoats_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:03:09 EST
In a message dated 12/10/2002 12:26:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, Harley1941 
writes:

> ... All kidding aside, I do enjoy the technical stuff too and have picked up 
> a lot of good information. If I gave the indication that I didn't like the 
> technical posting, blame it on my friend and fellow paddler, Jim et al. he 
> made me do it. ...

Ronnie, while we're dealing out back-handed disclaimers: I only wrote my 
disclaimer because Doug's egged it on ... I had NEVER, EVER (no really!) 
previously thought about apologizing for being excessively technical in my 
humble contributions ...

;-)

By the way, those chemical gloves are so cheap that I don't see how they can 
make money on them. Therefore, unless you want a special grip pattern, I'd 
not bother with trying to make my own! Didn't we have a discussion about 
dipping cloth gloves into liquid latex to make waterproof gloves at one 
point? Or was that on a more technically oriented discussion list? You see, 
if you make your own, you could probably curl them around a (release agent 
coated) paddle shaft before the latex cures and let the gloves set in that 
shape ... or to improve the grippiness, how about putting appropriately sized 
pieces of sticky neoprene sleeve over the shaft, curling the gloves around 
that and then, when the latex has cured, cutting the sleeve ...

;-)))))))))

(By the way, do you hail from 1941 or the Hog or both?!?)

Best regards,
Ralph

Ralph C. Hoehn
Ralph_at_Atlatl-Kayaks.com / Ralph_at_PouchBoats.com
www.Atlatl-Kayaks.com / www.PouchBoats.com
phone: +1-203-324-0901

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