Oh yeah, good call! I learned about Google Advanced Search for scowering Craigslist nationwide, and find myself using it more and more all the time for all sorts of searching chores. You're right, it tends to work better for searching forums than the site's own search engine, ironically enough. I plumb forgot about it this go-round, thanks for the reminder!

: I'm with you Kurt, I've totally given up on all the forum search
: functions and just use Google Advanced Search, entering
: kayakforum.com under "Search within a site or
: domain:". Still a lot of mystery about why you get what you
: get but at least I can usually stumble into something.