Scott wrote: <snip>>>>>>I think it is worth noting that the Inuit paddled without decklines, end toggles, bulkheads, bow lines, or pfd's!!! I wonder how they ever managed to survive??????????<<<<<<< It must have been because of a high birthrate and the fact that the birthrate is dependent on the number of surviving females rather than on the number of surviving males. A lot of the men who left to go hunting in kayaks never came back home. I imagine this was because when they got nervous they inflated their seal skin spontoons and then couldn't paddle as fast as the spontoon encumbered kayak was blown away. I wasn't there so this is just idle speculation. Matt Broze www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Feb 25 2004 - 14:30:40 PST
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