Re: [Paddlewise] Rec Boat Scenario

From: Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:54:16 -0400
Nick Schade wrote:

> My fisherman would say: "I'm ain't doin crazy sh*t like them guys. I's 
> just havin a little fun an goin fishin. Them guys is jus dum. 'Magin 
> goin out in the ocean in a little boat like that. They's just fools."

Around here the fisherman would never be caught dead (umm, that's a figure of 
speech, understand) in a little plastic rec boat. He'd be in a proper jon boat, 
which is essentially a 14'x4'x1' aluminum box with good primary stability and 
virtually no secondary. They are hard to turn over, and basically impossible to 
rescue. No jon boat user is ever going to take a rescue class, because he knows 
he won't turn over, and in fact is 99+% right. Unfortunately, he won't wear a 
PDF, either, which is why several of them drown every year when the stand up to 
pee after the first half of the six pack.

-- 
Steve Cramer
Athens, GA

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