Our group of 5 kayaks had just crossed the ship channel on our way back into the marina when we noticed a small coast guard vessel coming towards us. We had watched this ship run back and forth down the ship channel at high speed a couple of times and had wondered what they could be doing. As we were regrouping just off the edge of the channel the Coast Guard ship slowed and pulled up next to us. They wanted to let us know that a military ship was about to leave port and that we should stay 500 yards away from the orange zodiac. That is the zodiac with the machine gun. One of the Guardsmen also suggested that we not "raise our paddles too high". It might look like we were trying to fire something and we could be shot I guess. He added that the Coast Guard were "the nice, polite guys, but the other guys were not nice". After all that work on a nice efficient vertical stroke I guess I am going to have to learn to move the kayak without raising the the blade high ! enough to be visible if I really want to be safe around here. Mark Arnold mjamja_at_earthlink.net *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 15 2004 - 17:32:00 PST
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