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Re: Strip: Please help me identify this Kayak
By:JohnK
Date: 9/21/2012, 2:12 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Please help me identify this Kayak (Etienne Muller)

: Let us know if you meet up, and watch out for those great whites
: down your way. I saw one on tour once in a refrigerator truck
: with a window in the side and the lateral fins went up the sides
: as the seven foot truck bed was not wide enough to accommodate
: them and the width of the shark to which they were attached. At
: the time it was the biggest great White caught off Victoria. 24
: ft and change.

: I quit windsurfing for six weeks after seeing that thing up close,
: and I was living on the Gold Coast at the time.

: You guys may have the weather, but we have the small fish.

: Et

Hi Etienne,
Just back from a few days in the mountains, far from sharks and the like.
Several years ago I met a guy sailing his kayak along the north coast of Tasmania. He was on the beach and looking white.
I asked him how he was and all he did was point to his new kevlar carbon kayak..
I rolled it over to see and it had teeth marks on both sides of the hull.
He was hit from below in murky water, liftes several feet from the sea, and then fell back.
He kept upright but never even saw what hit him, but it was big.
It happens.
JohnK

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Gui Pot -- 9/16/2012, 7:53 am
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JohnK -- 9/16/2012, 8:00 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/16/2012, 9:26 am
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Donovan -- 9/16/2012, 7:04 pm
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Don T. -- 9/16/2012, 8:31 pm
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Gui Pot -- 9/17/2012, 12:14 am
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Gui Pot -- 9/17/2012, 12:16 am
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Bob Johns -- 9/17/2012, 12:42 am
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Gui Pot -- 9/17/2012, 1:02 am
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JohnK -- 9/17/2012, 1:37 am
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JohnK -- 9/17/2012, 1:39 am
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Gui Pot -- 9/17/2012, 4:08 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/17/2012, 6:54 am
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JohnK -- 9/17/2012, 6:30 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/17/2012, 6:54 pm
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JohnK -- 9/21/2012, 2:12 am
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dave g -- 9/17/2012, 7:38 pm
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Gui Pot -- 9/20/2012, 8:07 pm
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dave g -- 9/20/2012, 9:50 pm
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Gui Pot -- 9/21/2012, 9:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2012, 1:12 am