Bill -- I don't know if you read the other bulletin boards, but the Technique and Trips boards normall carry those type topics. -- Greg

> What's better than learning from your mistakes? Ans..learning from other
> peoples mistakes. It dosen't cost you anything. I learn from reading the
> reports of kaying accidents and near misses in Sea-Kayaker and Paddler
> magazine. Now I don't have to live (or not live) though that. I know this
> is a kayak building bb but when we run out of epoxy and bungie questions,
> how about relating a near miss, or incident, so that I can avoid what you
> went through. For example.. did you ever dump in the surf and try to roll
> and have the paddle yanked out of your hands by the next wave. Did you
> ever come to a rocky beach and have a nice man (idiot bastard) run out
> from the shore and help (idiot bastard) pull your boat across the rocks.
> Did you ever go out when it was so rough that you didn't care about you
> buddies because you were more worried about yourself? What do you think?
> Anybody want to hear this stuff? Save it for around a fire? Maybe we could
> code it so you epoxy sniffers wouldn't have to read it.