On 17 Jan 2004 at 14:43, Rev. Bob Carter wrote: > Someone is trying to put together a marathon kayak race mostly on the > outer coast of Alaska. It looks like a disaster in the making. You can > check it out at: > > www.kayakathon.com >From the web site it sounds like the organizer sees dollar signs in front of his eyes. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he can't tell one end of a kayak from the other. Unfortunately, many reports of events like this make it sound like adventure racers, raid organizers and the like are clueless about safety. Like they say, stupidity is the only thing in the universe more common that hydrogen. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jan 17 2004 - 21:16:33 PST
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