RE: [Paddlewise] Canoe Rescue off Point Defiance in Fast Current

From: Mark Sanders <sandmarks_at_ca.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:06 -0700
Well Doug, this big city paddler reads all your kayak/boat close encounter
stories with a touch of bewilderment. I paddle out of one of the largest
pleasure boat harbors around and have nary one close call with a boater to
relate. I think it's much worse for lake paddlers where people sometimes run
out of real estate, but my usual travels take me out of most pleasure
boater's paths and harbor speeds seem reasonably regulated. I guess you
gotta take the good with the bad: perhaps in big city life we tend to smack
down those folk who get out of line as a general rule: or else we'd always
be in chaos!

Mark

-----Original Message-----

Recent strategies for canoeing? We avoid areas of congestion now. Wilderness
is much more friendly. Sorry you big city dwellers.

Doug Lloyd
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