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I go paddling with kayakers nearly all the time because most of my buddies are kayakers, I don't stick it too them much and they don't stick it to me much either, we just enjoy riding the river together. It's like when we go on the snow, some snowboard, others ski and a few ride teles, variety is the spice of life.

But this I don't understand, and I have plenty of canoeing buddies and teach ww caneoing as a job.

when oc's flipp they swim, the boats are hard to rescue and the amount of time it takes can be a trip killer.

Yeah many paddlers can't roll their canoes BUT hard to rescue are you kidding me, just flip the sucker over, job done. Trying to pull a kayak without airbags out of river, that is hard to rescue, canoes they are a breeze in comparison.

Stay safe
JAmes

funkidreadz wrote:I go paddling with kayakers nearly all the time because most of my buddies are kayakers, I don't stick it too them much and they don't stick it to me much either, we just enjoy riding the river together. It's like when we go on the snow, some snowboard, others ski and a few ride teles, variety is the spice of life.

James: you got a big amen right here.

i'm with smerda too.... 'cept i'll be more blunt

am i missing something here?? isn't there already three pages worth of the exact same topic a few threads down?

[img]http://atheistblogger.com/wp-content/up ... coduck.jpg[/img]

Ouch, look like that duck could hurt my retriever

Mallagator?

I only paddle with nice people. I'm a lot more interested in the skills and character of the boater than I am in the type of boat he/she paddles.

david is right. character is much more important than craft.

I'd rather boat with a fun kayaker than a lame OBer(kayaker must have thick skin). Outside of that...on Class V, I'm boating with whoever has the skills, and type of character, that I feel they would save my arse if it came down to it.

There's not a ton of people that would risk their own life out of principle to save anothers. Those are the type of people you want to boat the gnar with.

Let's all hug at least one kayaker on every river trip. Twice if they're good looking. If we all do this, it will go a long way to changing whatever reputation canoeists might have.

johnd wrote:Let's all hug at least one kayaker on every river trip. Twice if they're good looking. If we all do this, it will go a long way to changing whatever reputation canoeists might have.

Hmmm. I'm not sure I like the direction this "change of reputation" could go in.

Go boat, get better, paddle with other boaters (whatever boat they are in--except the S-O-T'ers, and S-U-P'ers, and tour'ers and rec'ers ). Get seen, get known, know the other boaters, have fun. Could that help attitude?

i think he was joking.... YOU WERE JOKING RIGHT?

Hades, you guys think showing up in a canoe subjects you to ridicule and prejudice, trying paddling "FullGirlz":

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victor ... 5988977158

Just try that sometime and see what the guys (not to mention the authorities) say at the put in.

(And rescued by a *kayaker*! Oh, the shame!!)



Alden

Alden...

[Craig for once holds back from posting a terribly funny and innapropriate picture.]

Too bad the "rescuer" wasn't paddling one of these...