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(ckayak) wrote in news:1bd7a8d0.0308122031.59e7ec16
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I agree with felsenmeer. Not enough boat and not enough experience
and training are the formula for disaster.

If you wouldn't have removed the context it would have been obvious that
nobody was claiming that someone without experience/training should paddle a
recreational boat on whitewater.

My contention is that with a bit of experience/training and a properly
equipped boat (float bags, spray deck) and paddler (wearing a PFD and
helmet) one *can* paddle whitewater up to class II fairly safely. I also
contend that someone without experience/training paddling a whitewater boat
is just as unsafe as an inexperienced/untrained paddler in a rec boat.

There is a reason why they make WW, rec and touring boats.

To sell more kayaks?

Read the subject line WW in a rec boat? Doesn't that answer the
question.

No, it doesn't. The subject line doesn't indicate what class of whitewater
your talking about nor does it indicate how much experience the paddler has.

Categorically stating that it's unsafe to paddle whitewater (even class II
or lower) in a recreational boat implies that a whitewater boat somehow
makes a paddler safer. Boats don't make paddlers safer. Experience,
training, and common sense makes paddlers safer.