On Oct 5, 10:07*am, jaybird wrote:
Remember when you could go to RBP and find discussions on boats?
Remember when you could go to RBP and read funny stories from other
paddlers?
Remember when you could go to RBP might find something for sale you
were looking for?
Remember when you could go to RBP and swap put in and take out info as
well as water levels?
Remember when you could go to RBP and find intelligent comments about
paddling?
Remember when you could go to RBP and read about what other paddlers
were doing in the paddling world, like Dancewater, Mothra, and others?

Those were the days.

I paddle 65-70 days a year now and technique and good sense have kept
me from swimming. *I am a member of the ACA and the AWA but I never
remember accepting any money from them. *I follow their paddling
guidelines as a demonstration of responsible good sense.

People have the right to paddle the boat of their choice, in the
manner they wish, naked if they so choose. *That is an expression of
part of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.

I have never seen a boat or gear manufacturer attack paddlers for not
purchasing their products. *I have never seen a reputable supplier of
paddling gear insult and degrade other paddlers for choosing to
purchase alternate equipment. *I have never seen an outfitter display
what polite society would describe as irrational behaviour because
they chose to be outfitted by someone else.

The latest stream of garbage about sponsons is like selling ice cubes
to Eskimos. *Don't want 'em, don't need 'em. *And there were 39,800
traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. last year, not the twisted data
spewed just recently. *And they were happy with only the 39,800
fatalities because it was an 8% improvement over 2007. *We keep
driving cars, and we don't buy sponsons. *Obviously it isn't very busy
in sponson world because there is lots of time to cut and paste the
same old crap.

I promised myself I would ignore the continued spew of garbage, but my
wife told me to take the trash out....

Jay Hanks, President, Lansing Oar and Paddle Club
"all the rivers run to the ocean, and yet the ocean is not filled":
ECC 1:7

Rec.Boats Paddle posters are a cult; while not denying that the
Darlington School boys and over 200 other American children died in
terror and agony, being denied the proven means to get out of the
water and stay out, to live, like any two ten year old girls with 50
cent sponsons, enabling anyone without expensive and fraudulent
American Canoe Association instruction to get out of the deadly water
in 5 seconds: http://www.sponsonguy.com

Rec.boats paddle posters attempt to blame deaths on foolishly paddling
down rivers with rocks and trees to trap victims underwater until they
down. The Darlington school boys were not trapped and drowned under
any river. They died just like over 200 American children; they died
because they were deprived of any means to get out of the water, and
stay out, and paddle to sho 50 cent, 5 second sponsons.

Some rec.boats.paddle posters first attempt to say canoe over canoe
rescues would have saved these kids. Then they cease when it is
pointed out that ACA Hall of Fame instructors (Cliff Jacobson et al.)
state the canoe over canoe can't work in real life, and "rescuing"
canoes will only be capsized as well, without 5 second emergency
sponson stability. In desperation the truly stupid or crazy posters
will state: "These deaths are necessary for the public to know canoes
and kayaks are dangerous." In fact these canoes and kayaks are
deliberately designed for fraudulent "rescues" that are as dangerous
as possible; despite public knowledge that canoes and kayaks with
sponsons have crossed both Atlantic and Pacific oceans (Lindemann
1956, 1957, Gillett 1992) This deliberate intention to torture and
kill innocent American children and adults, shown here on
rec.boats.paddle, imitates the results of the original Milgram
experiments at Yale, where 65% complied with inflicting very painful,
even fatal levels of electric shock to the screaming actor, hired for
the Yale University experiment, the most famous experiment in social
psychology, and replicated throughout the world in dozens of
university labs.

Tim Ingram