Re: Kayak throw down -- Fortune Bay Expeditionary Team Campfire

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Subject: Re: Kayak throw down

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Pathfinder

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Date Posted: 17:13:14 08/03/05 Wed
In reply to: Government 's message, "Kayak throw down" on 12:06:20 08/02/05 Tue

True Dat Brother, True Dat.

You know, you have never attempted a throw down with me yet, and the ACA comment was to encourage a throw down.

As far as the '88 Volvo, that isn't necessarily true. I can only get to some campsites with a Jeep (especially at the winter coyote camps), and you can pull a 14' RIB from the waters of Lake Michigan from a boat landing, but can you pull it from the waters at a sandy beach littered with rocks. The Jeep capability compared to the Volvo is much different than the kayak comparisons. And the Jeep was probably cheaper. That said, your point is well taken.

And we can agree that heart and character are the key.

All this from a recommendation about where to buy a boat??

This forum may very well be transforming into a good forum with chat like this.

>Yea, I tossed in a little inflammatory verbiage
>partially to see if anyone was paying attention. I
>didn't quite think I'd get called out in the same
>sentence as "ACA". Ouch.
>
>Granted, the rec boats can get'er done. Hell, I
>started w/ (and still use) a 12.5 ft whitewater boat
>w/ a homemade front bulkhead. Total cost was ~$275.
>You can also cross the Straights of Mackinac in an Old
>Town Otter and probably have fun doing it. Come to
>think of it, you can hike the AT in steel toe work
>boots, mountain bike w/ an old school $50 mtn. bike
>from a garage sale, get to the top of almost any
>mountain w/o $2000 worth of climbing gear, shoot deer
>without space-age camo or a tree stand and catch fish
>w/ a $20 WalMart fishing rod. Actually, you can get to
>the same camp sites & carry the same gear w/ an '88
>Volvo station wagon instead of a Jeep, but would you
>want to? If you can have better for the same price,
>why not? And if you can throw some money toward an
>outfitter or private party instead of Dick's "sporting
>goods", all the better.
>
>If you ID yourself as being in the 'rec' market, then
>the more power to you. And in the end, I respect a
>paddler by the heart with which they paddle, not the
>boat they are paddling. (That's a rare standard these
>days, and it�s why I paddle w/ FBET & not the
>aforementioned ACA crowd). My $0.01CAN is that you can
>get an awful lot for little or no additional cash.

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