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Re: Don't Leave Shore Without a Spare paddle
By:Thomas Duncan
Date: 1/15/2012, 7:19 pm
In Response To: Re: Don't Leave Shore Without a Spare paddle (Kurt Maurer)

: Don't any of you play Harpoon Yourself? It's loads of fun, you
: throw your Greenland stick in the water ahead of you like an
: Inuit going for a walrus or something, and if you do it just
: right, the paddle goes under, stops, then comes shooting back
: out right at you. The object is to catch it on its return
: flight. With your hands, not your eyeballs or teeth or other
: soft, sensitive part. You'll miss your mark once in a while,
: then the game becomes practice for deploying and using your
: spare to go fetch it back.

Good grief. I know I am a hopeless kayak geek now. Yes, I have played this game. On multiple occasions. Even better if you find a football floating in the river after a hard rain, you haul back and launch a tight spiral, then try to take a stroke or two and harpoon the football, preferably just prior to splashdown, pull out the storm and chase down the ball and long paddle.

Group paddles are boring.

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Paddle: Spare paddle
ancient kayaker -- 1/11/2012, 5:20 pm
Re: Paddle: Spare paddle *PIC*
Kurt Maurer -- 1/11/2012, 6:43 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 1/11/2012, 7:26 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/11/2012, 8:02 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 1/11/2012, 10:42 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/12/2012, 10:35 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2012, 3:11 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/12/2012, 1:22 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 1/14/2012, 7:11 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 1/14/2012, 8:01 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 1/14/2012, 9:45 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 1/14/2012, 9:54 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/11/2012, 7:28 pm
Spare paddle, etc
Dave Gentry -- 1/11/2012, 9:37 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/12/2012, 8:01 am
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Dave Gentry -- 1/12/2012, 9:58 am
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Randy Knauff -- 1/12/2012, 11:00 am
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Will N To Go -- 1/13/2012, 11:53 am
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Paul Davies -- 1/11/2012, 7:47 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/12/2012, 1:20 am
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Matthias -- 1/12/2012, 2:14 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2012, 3:14 am
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Matthias -- 1/17/2012, 2:10 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/22/2012, 3:46 am
Don't Leave Shore Without a Spare paddle
John VanBuren -- 1/13/2012, 10:56 am
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Mike Savage -- 1/13/2012, 2:07 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/13/2012, 2:36 pm
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Mike Savage -- 1/13/2012, 7:40 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/13/2012, 4:05 pm
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Mike Savage -- 1/13/2012, 7:52 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/13/2012, 3:40 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 1/13/2012, 7:03 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 1/14/2012, 7:18 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 1/15/2012, 7:19 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 1/15/2012, 7:30 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 1/15/2012, 7:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2012, 3:21 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2012, 3:15 am
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Craig Robinson -- 1/17/2012, 2:01 am
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Craig Robinson -- 1/17/2012, 2:11 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 1/18/2012, 5:28 am