Re: [Paddlewise] August Sea Kayaker

Doug,

you have been considerably entertaining over the years and quite informative. I got lucky, not yourself, George, or Matt, get to do the breakdown, I did it. I don't know why that happened, but I feel I was pretty honest about my contribution to the failures of the day and let no detail out of the analysis. I'm sure the Letters To The Editor will bring a few folks out and I welcome the feedback. 

The way the article worked out was pretty interesting in and of itself, as a process. Basically, I wrote an informal trip report breaking it down from my perspective and posted it on my local sea kayaking Yahoo group. That invited comments from many of the participants who offered their version. There were many back channel emails to all of us. My perspective was corrected by a few comments so the first draft was not gospel. It was reasonably accurate, but not good enough. Six viewers of a traffic accident have a different tale to tell. Someone in the meantime, posted it on Paddling.net and I heard about that, so I logged on and looked it over and offered a few comments but not much came out of it. One of my favorite photographers, who shall remain nameless as I'm not sure he wants his name bandied about on the spur, sent it to SK?via a good friend and participant, and SK contacted me if they could print it, but with a different direction. I had no problems in rewriting it a
 s all of you can surely attest, my first drafts aren't usually top shelf stuff.

I had to get my friend who swam much that day's permission first. He was ok with a semi-private website, but I was not sure about him going pro with an international audience. Since you have written many safety articles, Doug, I'm sure you understand the boundaries all too well. I got permission and Chris and his staff at SK helped me make it into something (I hope) is worthy of SK. It was different than what first made the rounds. I am very confident that the final result is as close to truth as one can get. I've never written professionally, so that was an interesting process. I've always just bored all of y'all with whatever stuff I've been selling out of my taco stand and called it a day. I'm quite fine with any commentary here if anyone has one after reading it.

Cheers,

Rob G





I enjoy Duane's stuff. Looking forward to your article Rob - not sure if you just did the analysis or more. Most of my safety articles have dead men who don't tell tales, which leaves me in deference to the paddling community to supply information if they have it, which they don't always want to offer freely, but then some do.?
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The Brooks article is due for October. As my wife took away my Visa card, funding a new boat may have to rely on writing.?
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I'm looking forward to Jon Turk's article in August SK and Eric's story. The rotator cuff info looks like it will be useful - something some of us suffer from chronically.?
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Every time you think SK is getting old hat, fresh perspectives and new fodder is served up. Thanks to Paddlewisers for contributing. There's been some negative comments in the past; my perspective is then, contribute something.?
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Doug Lloyd?




-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca>
To: rcgibbert_at_aol.com; crjungers_at_gmail.com; paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net
Sent: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 6:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] August Sea Kayaker


I enjoy Duane's stuff. Looking forward to your article Rob - not sure if you just did the analysis or more. Most of my safety articles have dead men who don't tell tales, which leaves me in deference to the paddling community to supply information if they have it, which they don't always want to offer freely, but then some do.?
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The Brooks article is due for October. As my wife took away my Visa card, funding a new boat may have to rely on writing.?
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I'm looking forward to Jon Turk's article in August SK and Eric's story. The rotator cuff info looks like it will be useful - something some of us suffer from chronically.?
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Every time you think SK is getting old hat, fresh perspectives and new fodder is served up. Thanks to Paddlewisers for contributing. There's been some negative comments in the past; my perspective is then, contribute something.?
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Doug Lloyd?
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> Craig and all,?
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> we have a joke whenever we do a club trip and gather at the put in: let's > not have George Gronseth do the write up for this trip, so let's be safe > out there, folks. So my introduction to most of Sea Kayaker's readers is a > particular screw up of mine. That's alright, we solved our own problems. A > good friend of mine who was on that trip said I shouldn't worry, he has > now starred in two safety articles.?
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> I haven't paddled with Duane in a few years, but he is very fun to paddle > with and one helluva paddler. He has made alot of contributions to Sea > Kayaker and Sea Kayaker is better off for it.?
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> Cheers,?
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> Rob G?
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