I went to the last East Coast Kayak Festival with Ronnie and one of his strip built kayaks. At the time I had a plastic Avocet. I could not have bought a hello from anyone when he and I were together with our kayaks. It was like I didn't even exist. Every guy who liked to work with wood crowded in to ask questions. Their wives would have to pull them away after a 20 minute Q & A session. Another time we road together to go paddling. It was almost painful how many stares I received (I was driving) around town. I really prefer to be anonymous in life and the lime light was very blinding. Jim et al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Baker" <shawnkayak_at_yahoo.com> >Maybe I'm a little jaded by building strip kayaks, but when my S&G is sitting on the >beach next to my stripper, the S&G gets ignored. > Shawn *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 17 2003 - 12:03:08 PST
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