Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote: Good to hear you talk openly about your prudent period of pupilage working up to your first 100 hours. A lot of kayaking is premised on going out and figuring it out yourself. ////////////////////////////////////////////////// Thanks, On my first advanced skill class was another fellow about my size and age, 6'+, 200# and early 50's. He had been a kayaker for some time, telling me that he just went for it. He took level one the day before and level two that I was in the next day because he wanted to be a guide for the company and they required rescue skills for the guides. The afternoon tide was flowing and the wind was behind it and we had at most two foot chop on the bay, pretty calm stuff. He looked out at it expressing concern about the wisdom of being out there in those conditions. He was a bit surprised when I told him that my level one class, a month earlier, had 13 knot winds against the ebb with 3' seas, and I did 4 various reentries that day in those condition, only one failing, and I thought the water on our lesson day was pretty calm.... 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 Nov 10 2007 - 13:20:15 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:27 PDT