Pat posted: >There are more than a few guidelines questions for people planning to rent or buy a kayak that they should be asking the renter/retailer. What questions if any, should a renter be asking a person of the "business/ethical" category before renting them kayaking gear?< Pat, as an aside, did you hear BC may be on the cusp of a 400 year cycle for extreme drought? Hot dry summers on the central coast may mean some booming business for you over the coming years -- if the forests don't burn down. As far as the question at hand, do you mean contractual stuff or kayaking questions? I'd sure be asking the retailer for his/her local knowledge. If the retailer also provided guiding services, there may be a conflict of interest in giving away too much information. I know you are ethical in this respect, because you have always been more than helpful from what I've experienced and heard. I'd also hope the renter would ask the retailer if there were any requirements regarding skill level, experience, rescue knowledge and issues involving on-water/shore communication and weather/tide forecasting ability. Here, one would expect the retailer of an ethical reputation to be asking the questions first. Doug Lloyd Victoria BC *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> Pat, as an aside, did you hear BC may be on the cusp of a 400 year cycle for > extreme drought? Aside from the global warming (cars and airplanes are to be blaimed first of all), but which is, probably, not cyclical, - what this forecast is based on? *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
As for the forest fire situation, the information source was Dr. Ken Green of the Fraser Institute, a right-wing think tank here in BC. Alex said: >Aside from the global warming (cars and airplanes are to be blaimed first of all), but which is, probably, not cyclical, - what this forecast is based on?< Doug Lloyd Victoria BC *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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