Hope you don't mind my two "sense" about The old man and the sea, which I did enjoyed reading and even though I'm a paddler of the Adirondacks not of the sea! Just finished reading Ralphs statement about, which I wished he had gone on and on! If you don't mind me generalizing, philosophizing or psychoanalyzing, it's the "basics" that we all find most comforting to the/our spirit, kind of like the smell of fresh baked bread. We, maybe even as a society, tend to over complicate things when trying to reach deep down in to ourselves to find something to make us feel good. Maybe it's our society that makes us complicate things which hides those thing we really need to be really happy and we are a product of such society. It's comforting to know there are men like the the old man and the sea, maybe a product of his society 25 years ago, to enlighten us, because what do we really need, to do the things we like to do, as long as you're good at what you do, so you can do it over and over again! To become content with ourselves and the world around us or to just let the world go by, if only for a short time. Paddling is one of those things, basics, that makes me feel good and I am guilty, I am a product of my society, I have complicated the basic with my kevlar kayak and carbon bent shaft paddle, when I start paddling it doesn't take me very long to realize I'm paddling way to fast, I need to slow down, so I can realize what is around me and before I can reach the contentment I am looking for. HAPPY PADDLING and thanks Ralph, may we all get connected to nature in a special way and find the contentment we all are looking for It's suppose to hit 40 degrees today and if there's not to much ice in the Hudson I'm going paddling, if only for a little while. Bill Doody *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> Hope you don't mind my two "sense" about The old man and the sea, which I did > enjoyed reading and even though I'm a paddler of the Adirondacks not of the > sea! I did enjoy it too. It's a matter of sense of proportion - how far should we go into simplicity and austerity, VS benefits of modern technology. Brass fittings of old Klepper were still brass, not wooden. I'm sure his knife was metal too (not stone axe or fish bone). Wood is an excellent material, and Klepper AE is pretty old and tested model, very little need to improve anything on it. Fiberglass paddle is lighter, better shaped and lets you go faster than plastic or aluminums one, being strong enough, so again very little need to go for aluminums shovels, right :-)? I also wouldn't compare folding or skin-on-frame boats to fiberglass or plastic or metal boats - they are just too different. Alex. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:33:33 PDT