"Roger Houston" wrote in
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"KMAN" wrote in message
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My part in the discussion came about because I felt that opinions were
being expressed to suggest that one cannot learn to kayak without
professional instruction.

As the guy who started the whole thing by asking why the subject boat
was hard for a "beginner" to control, I must express my sincerest
apologies for ever having posted.

Despite the fact that the posting generated a lot of heated debate it also
hopefully produced some useful information.

The group seems to be wound fairly
tightly, with a few pretty helpful people and a bunch of people with a
lot of free-floating hostility.

That's not really any different from pretty much every other online forum
I've been involved in. Some people clearly just likely to argue/debate are
seem to be more concerned about being right and "winning" an argument than
spreading useful information. It's pretty easy to determine who those
people are just be looking over the archives and seeing who is involved in
long debates.

Most of the "paddling" that goes on here is on one another's butts.

Anyone on here have a canoe?

I do, along with three touring kayaks (actually, one of them I'm rebuilding
due to it's nearly fatal encounter with a fallen tree branch that was 15" in
diameter and 30' long) and a whitewater kayak (that I mostly use in the
winter for rolling practice at pool sessions).