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Dame Ioreth
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May 25 2015, 2:20pm
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I was just making my bed and I realized...
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I have this same quote embroidered on a pillow. Really!
You know when someone says something trying to be profound and someone snarks back "You should needlepoint that on a pillow...."? Well, I really do have this on a pillow! It used to be my grandpa's pillow and I gave it to him because he loved that quote so much. He was happiest in a boat too.  
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swordwhale
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May 26 2015, 5:07pm
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Was utterly charming. Stayed in a neat bed and breakfast, the lady grew her own fruit for the muffins. We walked out the back of the B&B at night to dive in the shallows of the river.
There was a restaurant called The Barracks, which was an old military barracks from ... Colonial period or War of 1812 or something... wait staff in period garb, candle-lit (I remember one candle on the wall complete with massive smoke stains). Dinner was served as per period: many courses with plenty of time in between to converse. This annoyed several of our members of Short Attention Span Theater. I loved it. Wonder if it's still there.
Canada always feels very much like the rest of the east coast... except when you cross the border there's all these maple leaf flags proclaiming NOT IN THE US ANYMORE!!!
I understand the US tried to invade Canada a few times during the War of 1812, ostensibly to "free them from English oppression"... the Canadians politely refused and sent us packing back across the border.
The wrecks we saw were largely wooden schooners (anywhere from 50' to 100' long) minus the spars and rigging. Since it's fresh water, no reeflike growth on the ships as you'd have in the ocean (which attracts all kinds of life), but there were fish hanging out on some.
My uncle spent a lot of time in Canada hunting and fishing, back after WWII. Went into the wilds, hung out with Native people, all stuff we heard about after he died.
We also went to the one world's fair in Quebec when I was a kid (so, sometime in the 60s).
My two favorite Iditarod mushers, both among the rare teams running Siberians, are Canadian: one in Haliburton Ontario (Winterdance Kennel, Hank DeBruin), and one in Alberta (North Wapiti Kennels, Karen Ramstead). The Haliburton one does sled dogs tours in winter.
I'd love to visit Canada again.
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Annael
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May 26 2015, 6:33pm
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I've heard a lot of sailboat jokes along the lines of "the two happiest days in a sailor's life is when s/he buys a boat, and when s/he sells it."
Also: "A sailboat is a hole in the water into which you throw money."
Nonetheless, I agree. Was out Saturday on my friends' 36-foot Catalina and we were all very happy.
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Kimi
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May 31 2015, 2:13am
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The Mr and I enjoy that very much. We've kayaked a bit in New Zealand - Lake Taupo, Abel Tasman Park, Marlborough Sounds, Doubtful Sound. Also on two lovely rivers in south-western France, and during the last two winters pottering around gorgeous coastlines in Vanuatu. Relaxing and exciting at the same time, and a different view of places and wildlife.
We don't yet own a kayak of our own, but I think it'll happen some time.
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swordwhale
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Jun 1 2015, 4:47pm
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...get kayaks.
A word or two here...
http://www.swordwhale.com/kayaking-101.html
OK, a whole webpage I did.... Kayaking 101 (or how a 4000 year old boat is better than medication)
Basically:
...talk to a real outfitter, not a sporting goods store (clueless morons). Real outfitters paddle, a lot, and sell you what you need, not what the quota of the week is or what the book says.
Long skinny boat = fast and efficient.
Short fat boat paddles exactly like a bathtub.
All you need is a rooftop, some straps and those kayak blocks, but racks are nice.
Get a light paddle: it'll shave a few mph off your speed, and keep you from dying of exhaustion.
A sawed off detergent bottle is a bilge pump. A sponge helps too.
Drybags cameras, binoculars and other goodies are necessary.
So is falling out of your boat. It is not really, as the Northern Tribes thought, a dry sport.
You WILL fall out of your boat, what do you want to be wearing when you do.
Pack lunch. Make it mostly healthy. Avoid Sugar Bonk. Water is good. Water is real good.
Diveskins and surfer shirts are sunscreen that doesn't wash off. Cotton is rotten.
WEAR YOUR $*%$&^$% PFD!!!!
(sorry, rant over... just remembering the morons who went out in a flood stage and ended up cowering on debris wrapped around a bridge piling... in T-shirts, in cold water, with no PFDs). http://lancasteronline.com/news/kayaker-rescued-escape-conestoga-river-on-their-own-after-boats/article_65df7530-2ebb-5f84-9d31-f9784181060a.html
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swordwhale
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Jun 1 2015, 4:48pm
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but a kayak is a very very small hole...
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swordwhale
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Jun 1 2015, 4:54pm
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wanna go there toooooooooooo!!!!!!!
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
NZ kayaking....
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I had to google Vanawhiteoo....
Makes a kind of triangle with Aust and NZ...
Love that "Earth" contains an area called Oceania...
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Kimi
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Jun 1 2015, 8:45pm
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It really is a wonderful activity, and one we'd like to do more of.
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Kimi
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Jun 1 2015, 8:45pm
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swordwhale
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Jun 2 2015, 3:12pm
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been a wee tad virulent in my opinion of sporting goods stores...
I worked in one, and certain males basically "marked their territory" in a way which reminded me of badly behaved dawgs. I think they were intimidated by a female who knew more than they did. Grrrr, snarrrrrll.
Go to a real outfitter, the sporting goods people are still clueless.
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Annael
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Jun 4 2015, 3:29pm
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this is my current obsession: a race upside the Inside Passage from my town to Ketchikan, Alaska. Any type of boat permitted but NO MOTORS. They left this morning. Many are only going across to Victoria BC, but there's still a healthy field of boaters challenging the currents, weather, and BEARS.
http://r2ak.com/
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Misto
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Jun 12 2015, 11:56am
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I can't be bothered about sailing - I tried once, but it wasn't my thing. But rowing is good fun imo. Competitive rowing in a scull. Not that I mind the odd lazy trip to a scenic place, but that's not something to keep me interested in the long run.
Anyway, I have no access to any proper water around here, so rowing is sport of the past for me.
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swordwhale
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Jun 13 2015, 5:44pm
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but the local lake hosts a club of rowers...
the most hilarious thing is tiny cars going down the road with one of those huge rowing shells, three times as long as the car, on it...
kayak, simpler...
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