Nansen, Amundssen, Peary, Staff Sgt Williams, ....Ed and Mary...your next door neighbors. You miss the point. It's not gear, it's not classes, it's not experience. It is an affair of the heart. You know it when you see it in a newbie, and if you don't see it in yourself, I'm sorry. I may be a hopeless romantic but every time I get water under my butt I feel just right. Just like everything is where it should be. I do not take lessons, I have not taken lessons, to feel this way. Yes I have taken rolling lessons. I may be a romantic but I'm not stupid. I just figured the sea sorts out. I thought you had to have the heart to go to sea in a small boat and the flares be damned. I'm not a tee shirt and shorts guy in January, far from it, I have a couple of pounds of emergency equipment, but I see a lot of tech stuff talk, and not a lot of basic seamanship on this site. So be it, I'm not great navigator myself, but I do know this: it is not your boat, your paddle, or GPS. Every time I point my bow west I figure, Yokohama is just a fair bit out there. Or maybe Shanghai. Kevin *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Apr 20 2003 - 10:17:07 PDT
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