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"Te Canaille" wrote in news:_U_xc.1$MO3.0@lakeread01:
Good point John. Fact is the boat I want to repair has a similar history. Even though a hull gets scratched there's nothing wrong with wanting to re-do the exterior. It shows a certain degree of caring about one's gear and personal look. And for some that amount of degree is very low, for others very high. If I thought any of the scratches on the hull of my cedar strip boat significantly impaired performance or would compromise the integrity of the hull I'd bring my boat up from my friends shop and refinish it. As long as they're only cosmetic I'll leave it the shop where it's readily available for a paddle anytime I want. I'll probably use it for the lesson I'll probably help with this weekend. Students hear about 10% of what you say but absorb about 90% of what you are. Probably some truth in that. I hesitate, however, to buy the notion that student equate instructor competance with the physical appearance of the boat they're paddling, or whether they're decked out in new high tech clothing. In fact, my experience has had an opposite effect. I also have been a student many times in classes over the past few years. In one case, one of the instructers was wearing an old sun faded PFD. Unlike the clean shaven pretty boy ski instructor image with a french accent, he had a full beard and a british accent. I listened to everything he said though because of who he was. His name was Nigel Foster. In another lesson at a sea kayaking symposium a few years ago I took a refining your forward stroke class. After introductions we got into our boat and the instructor hopped into a loaner plastic boat (a Dagger). He attempted to put on the nylon spray skirt a couple of time before asking me to help put on the poorly fitting skirt. Once he started paddling though he danced with that kayak like nothing I had ever seen. The class was very well structured and my forward stroke improved significantly from that two hour lesson. I was paying close attention to what he said, as he has probably made more forward strokes than anyone in the world over the past five years, including the circumnavigation of all of the British isles, the South Island of New Zealand, and most recently Iceland. Chris Duff is a remarkable paddler, even is a cheap plastic boat with a poorly fitting spray skirt. |
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