Kayak icebreaking is a unique phenomenon for those of us in northern latitudes, I am sure. I was wondering if anybody else out there goes out in their kayaks to ram floating ice sheets? Sounds silly, but this time of year there are large sheets of ice on our lake. They are held together very loosely and comprised of large vertical columnar ice crystals. When the kayak rams the ice sheet - the columnar ice crystals slowly peel away and sound very much like a chandelier or wind chime. Our club makes this an annual special event that is looked forward by all. Is there anybody else doing this? Anybody have preferred kayaks for this? I like my West River 180, because it splits the ice sheet nicely and maintains stability well if hung up or high centered. Taking out the icebreaker kayak tonight if the wind is right. :-) Jim Meldrum Lesser Slave Lake Sea Kayak Club Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada *************************************************************************** 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 Thu May 22 2003 - 07:46:44 PDT
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