for those looking for more poetry you'll need to try another post. On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:21 -0800, "Doug Lloyd" <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote: > Sorry for your loss...or will this be your gain? > > Wild wind storm here today on the west coast. Took my old Nordy out on a day > like this a few years, removed the tiedowns and she blew off the van roof. > Put a pretty mean dent in the municipalities' asphalt parking lot. Kayak was > fine. Yours would have been airborne and gone bye-bye... I'm familiar with blow ways, if you'll recall my post last fall about the runaway boat cart wheeling along the surface, catching air as it rolled off chop... My screw up was leaving it on the car unstrapped - incredibly dumb. I didn't notice any breeze when I unstrapped the boat, it only takes one small gust... I may be lucking out on this one. Last year one of my friends gave me his old intermediate level surf ski, a Fenn mako XT. My wife now uses that boat, It's going to be my boat for the early season paddling. Yesterday another paddling buddy offered me his old boat, a lightweight carbon/kevlar Fenn Mako 6. It has some chipping and peeling of the finish, but the hull doesn't leak. I am going to try to clean up that boat and tentatively get it painted. The price is very good, another free boat. In this case "old" is relative, the boat is only 3 or 4 years old. I haven't heard back on an estimate for my current boat. If the estimate is reasonable I'll fix that boat and give it away. Kirk -- Kirk Olsen *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 03 2011 - 05:25:10 PST
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