Canadian Ckayaker: Here Be Paddles, Mates!

Friday, February 15, 2008

Here Be Paddles, Mates!

Okay, pine is not the wood of choice for making Greenland style paddles, but it did occur to me as we were skiing today, that someone is growing lots of wood to make paddles! Good ski. Good paddles!

1 comment:

Silbs said...: Oh skier/paddler, spare that tree. Use drift wood.; February 15, 2008 7:51 PM

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"In life, as
On the water, let
The arch of the sky
And the mightiness of storms
Encompass you.
Tremble with joy!"

Quote from an Iglulik shaman recorded by Knud Rasmussen in 1921 in the 'Fifth Thule Expedition" volume on Igloolik.

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"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loran Eisley

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"Remember that kayaking can be a lot like prostitution. First you do it for fun, then for friends, then for money..."

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"Power your boat with carbohydrates not hydrocarbons"

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"Life is about each moment of breath,
Living is about each breathless moment!"

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"She's all my fancy painted her, she's lovely, she is light.
She waltzes on the waves by day and rests with me at night."

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"There are no strangers,
Only unmet friends..."

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"I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life."

... from Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson

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...Lawrence Coady

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...Joan Baez (1941 - )

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