[Paddlewise] Into The Mystic (was Mariner Max for sale)

From: "Matt Broze" marinerkayaks_at_msn.com

(snip)
>We are again out of the kayak selling business. The last kayak
> we made (an Elan) is in my garage and is expected to be picked up next 
> week.
> I have gotten all the molds back and now have an even more serious storage
> problem. We won't be selling mariner's any longer. Several companies are
> interested in making some of all of them so something could happen along
> that line (if it doesn't require too much work on my part) but nothing is
> fixed or likely to happen real soon in that respect. In the present 
> economy
> kayaks and other higher priced items (like cars) are not flying off the
> showroom floor these days.

Cam, Matt...we love you. Maybe it's "not a country for old men" anymore but 
you two will always be younger than the sun. Thank you Matt for the years - 
your brilliance; your generosity of heart.

For Matt:


Into The Mystic - by Doug Lloyd

An ocean cradles my slender craft
Not as a mother her own
But life cradling the journey.

The Mystery, the Profoundness of All
Transcendence found in undulations
Rising, falling.floating through.

Ere, my bonnie boat glides
Fleeting spindrift. Wind-thrown away
And the moments? Accounted for!

So few really knew
It rocked the gypsy soul
Born before wind and waves.

Hull. Water. Apart and one.
Free of encumberances
Magnificently. Visionary.

A Legacy of friends.
Into the Mystic all must go.
The Mariner. There is no fear.

Doug Lloyd
Victoria BC
(with appologies to Van Morrison)
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