Daniel,

If you are looking for people to paddle with, we would love for you to come down and join us in the South Sound. It would be great to see your Pygmys. What models did you make? I know you don't exactly live in the South Sound Area, but my brother lives up in Edmonds and he comes down and joins us on our trips. I can be very interresting with a whole fleet of wooden kayaks on the beach. Check out our web page at http://www.members.tripod.com/sswoodenkayakclub/

Mike

: In spite of it being rather cold and windy in Seattle today, I took the two
: Pygmy's over to Lake Ballinger to celebrate their last and final coat of
: varnish (woohoo! they're done! completely!), and once again a passersby
: stopped and asked the usual questions for 10 minutes.

: Has anyone ever NOT had this happen to them?

: On one particularly egregious day last fall, during a two-hour jaunt from
: Lake Union up to Magnuson Park, eight people stopped to talk before,
: during, or after. EIGHT!

: And I can't even imagine how you strip-builders handle it, being that your
: boats are even more impressive and eye-catching than my "plain
: old" S&G's.