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Re: Questions about sea kayaking

Posted By: Chris Ostlind
Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at 1:51 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Questions about sea kayaking (Bryan Hansel)

: My thoughts: Forget about coming up with new gear, but do come up with a new
: program that includes safety instruction and training for all kayakers.
: Come up with a way that it become profitable for retailers.

Actually Bryan,

it would have to be a natural interaction of advanced gear as well as advanced tecnhique, that would create the environment in which you would be much safer. One does not exist without the other.

Think back to what the simplest of boats might be... I'm guessing a deckless version of something like the Irish Coracle. When that proved too harsh for heavily wave strewn environments, the decked boat magically sprang into being through natural product development... in other words, new gear arrived that created an on-going capability in the pursuit of the human desires. In this case, it was huntng for animals to maintain the subsistance lifestyle.

Along with that new gear, came a need to respond on a personal skills level to the more developed capability as presented by the new boat style.

All these things go hand in hand and they will always be so. Man is a technological creature, and that puts a skill premium on the folks who wish to practice with the new technology as it is developed.

You simply can not have one without the other unless you wish to be staked-out in a technological envelope from the past.

Chris

Messages In This Thread

Questions about sea kayaking
Mathew Cardinali -- Tuesday, 6 February 2007, at 4:59 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Wednesday, 7 February 2007, at 12:13 p.m.

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HenkA -- Wednesday, 7 February 2007, at 12:25 p.m.

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Reg Lake -- Friday, 9 February 2007, at 10:28 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Friday, 9 February 2007, at 7:16 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Reg Lake -- Friday, 9 February 2007, at 10:44 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 3:56 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 10:58 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Mike Savage -- Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 12:19 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 2:26 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Mike Savage -- Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 6:08 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Kris Buttermore -- Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 1:00 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 1:41 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Kris Buttermore -- Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 2:48 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 3:41 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Friday, 23 March 2007, at 12:17 a.m.

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HenkA -- Friday, 23 March 2007, at 1:30 a.m.

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Bryan Hansel -- Friday, 23 March 2007, at 11:15 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Kris Buttermore -- Friday, 23 March 2007, at 12:05 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 12:55 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Wednesday, 4 April 2007, at 5:25 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 11 February 2007, at 11:28 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 11 February 2007, at 11:30 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 11:48 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 1:00 p.m.

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HenkA -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 9:33 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 10:42 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 6:48 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 10:51 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 1:40 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 6:00 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 1:06 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
HenkA -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 9:42 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 18 February 2007, at 10:48 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 6:29 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Kris Buttermore -- Thursday, 22 March 2007, at 1:09 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Alex Ferguson -- Friday, 23 March 2007, at 1:08 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Sunday, 11 February 2007, at 11:36 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Chris Ostlind -- Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at 1:51 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at 7:35 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Chris Ostlind -- Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at 7:50 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 8:22 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 10:40 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Andy Waddington -- Tuesday, 27 February 2007, at 6:29 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Wednesday, 28 February 2007, at 1:39 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Robert N Pruden -- Tuesday, 20 February 2007, at 3:12 a.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Tuesday, 20 February 2007, at 10:01 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Alex Ferguson -- Thursday, 22 February 2007, at 3:49 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Chris Ostlind -- Thursday, 22 February 2007, at 4:02 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Robert N Pruden -- Thursday, 22 February 2007, at 9:02 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Bryan Hansel -- Friday, 23 February 2007, at 7:12 p.m.

Re: Questions about sea kayaking
Alex Ferguson -- Thursday, 22 February 2007, at 4:07 p.m.

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