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(William R. Watt) typed:

beware of ceritified paddling instruction. if you get hooked we do have
certified deconditioning agents but they cost a lot of money. we have to
isolate in safe house for up to 6 weeks for the therapy to work. I don't
recommend it except as a last resort. Better to avoid gettign hooked in
the first place.

I've said this as part of a long message, but I'll repeat it here,
concisely:

William Watt is one of the more dangerous people in this newsgroup,
because his advice could cost a beginner his life.

If a beginner wants to piddle around in flat water like William Watt
does, he doesn't need to spend a penny on instruction, and he can
carve his boat out of a log. But Watt spews his anti-instruction,
anti-manufactured-boat idiocy with no regard for whom his audience may
be. Anyone who tries to canoe Class III water, or above, with no
instruction in a boat made from a sheet of plywood, puts his life at
very serious risk.

IF YOU PADDLE WHITEWATER, or if you intend to, PLEASE do not read
anything William Watt has to say. Too many boaters drown every year
in North America, in the course of "teaching themselves", as Watt
advocates.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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