: Help with search would teach me to fish.

For your future fishing expeditions, I suggest using Google's advanced search (http://www.google.com/advanced_search). Putting www.kayakforum.com in the "site or domain:" field will limit the search to these forums.

One thing about this search function, it often gives you very old posts on the first page. You can limit the finds to more recent posts with the "last update:" field.

Dwight