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On 13 Nov 2003 00:28:13 -0800, (River Wild) wrote:

Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
it.... Hehe.

I've got a 25 year old boat of dinged and pitted fiberglass with a lot
of odd touches that I love. (For example - It has four foot positions
- the builder resined in two rippled pieces of fiber glass instead of
pedals like this: _/|_/|_/|_/|_ . I love this as my legs tire I can
change position without fussing with pedals and straps. It has a
sickle shaped skeg attached that fits in a slot above and below decks
made fast with a bungi chord. And bungis inside the bulkheads that
hold the hatch covers down.) All very odd. It's sun faded. It's an
odd cross between white water and sea going design. The previous owner
had taken it whitewater paddling and to glacier bay. I picked it up
for a $100. And I often enjoy it more than my newer boats.

It's name? (Borrowed from a bicycle movement favoring the old
materials and designs) - "The Retrogrouch".

Makes you a real Grouch potato, then?

My canoe is an old fleet boat from the University of Maine, back when it was
called the University of Maine at Orono, so the boat has UMO tattooed on the
bow. Since its such a high-volume riverpig, it was nothing to add an S
before that for its new name.

--riverman