I don't recall getting Richard Culpepper's discussion about real life in a dragon boat. I may have accidentally deleted it. Anybody have it? -- Bradford R. Crain Quoting Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:36 AM, skimmer <skimmer_at_enter.net> wrote: > >> I particularly appreciate Richard Culpeper's discussion about real life in >> a >> Dragon boat in rough conditions. >> >> Scary stuff-I had no idea!! >> >> There is a dragon boat in Oak Harbor where I kept the Muthah-Ship two years > ago and I remember looking at it and wondering whether it would be safe in > heavy water. > > The NW Indian tribes have a yearly meetup where the various canoe families > paddle from their home area to a place where they all can meet. The meeting > area varies every year and has included reservation lands in BC as well as > Washington State and there have been canoe families from as far away as SE > Alaska in attendance. > > These are not dragon boats, of course; they are all descendants of various > types of canoes used by earlier people and they look more seaworthy to me. > Nevertheless there have been fatalities from high seas and failure to wear > PFDs (especially by the men). Sue and her family are Chinook and her mother > is active in the tribal affairs so they have a lot of videos of the canoe > trips. We were just looking at them last weekend when we were visiting and I > noticed that almost all of the women paddlers (they call them "pullers") > wore a PFD but almost none of the men. Not surprising, I suppose. > > I've volunteered myself to be a "puller" in one of the Chinook canoes this > season so I'll probably have a better idea of how these boats behave in a > seaway. I wonder if they'll think I'm weird if I wear my drysuit. LOL > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA > www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 24 2011 - 11:21:39 PST
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