Hi All- > Group Crossing Procedures > > Maintaining a group effort on a crossing is difficult... I am involved with guiding The Great Hudson River Paddle, where we have up to 36 boats making the trip from Albany to NYC. In our orientation paddle, we always practice crossings to keep a tight group going across. We tend to take the chorus line approach. Once we were eating lunch on a beach just north of Athens when a group of about 100 geese were parading down to the water. They lined up abreast of each other, the first waiting for the last to get set in the formation then they did a perfect chorus line across the channel! We learned something that day...if geese can do it, why do humans have such a tough time? Jack Gilman ===== * Check out the Yonkers Paddling & Rowing Club online at www.yprc.org. ---------------------------------------------- See you on the river! *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 23 2004 - 07:41:59 PDT
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