Wolfgang wrote:
last May, as a matter of fact.

It happened like this........

I was at a gathering of folks who participate in another newsgroup
which
shall (for the moment, anyway) remain nameless. Over the course of
the last
ten years or so, bunches of us have gotten together numerous times
all over
the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe, to engage in a number of
activities
we enjoy. Exactly what those activities are I will leave to others
(assuming any of them show up here and feel a need to bear their
breasts) to
describe in detail. Suffice it to say that they typically include
fishing.
Anyway, back in May, one of the frequent participants (who happens
also to
have become a good friend) finally carried through on a perennial
threat to
bring along a couple of kayaks, and we spent a wonderful day.....in
the
company of some other good friends..... floating down a river, making

frequent stops to get out and fish promising looking riffles, holes,
pools,
runs, etc.

I was so enthralled with the whole event that within 48 hours of
arriving
back home at the end of a week long romp, I went out and bought a
9.5'
Perception Sundance (as close as I could come to the boat I'd used)
and a
paddle, and went for a float down a local river. This was fun, but
without
the fishing, it just wasn't the same.

So........

I went out on Lake Michigan and promptly shipped about 6 cubic feet
of water
over the bow when the first 6 inch wave broke over it. "Hm......,"
thinks
I, "this won't do at all, at all". So, I went back to the store and
bought
a spray skirt. "AH!, that's more like it!"

Since then, I've spent a couple hundred hours out on the big lake and

covered as many miles. I've paddled pretty much the entire shoreline
from
the Illinois/Wisconsin state line to Sheboygan, and stopped for lunch
at the
Rock Bottom Club on the Milwaukee river.

Big waves are FUN!

Um........I guess I don't have any questions.......right now.

Wolfgang
hey, charley..........you were right!

Wolfgang wrote in another thread,
"who is still searching for a new community."

Wolfgang, I have been doing some of my notorious research, and you can
ask riverman what I mean. I found some intriguing reading, and yet
would look forward to your continuing input in this NG. You ask me if I
had any idea of what community means, and I can only invite you to join
this one if you are indeed searching for a new community.

Anyway since you bought a boat, and found the big waves are fun, there
are a bunch of folks here that would have to agree with you. Despite
some of our vocal difference, we also have the same sense of fun and
life, found in the seat of a boat that can be paddled. A few of us like
to fish as well. I've been glad to meet you. TnT