Grip wrote:
ROFL Wilko! I've been coining that term for years! Did not know it worked
accross the pond as well, well actually aren't you accross several ponds?
"divorce boat" I thought I invented it, better check with the LOC

Hey Grip, where did you think I picked that term up? While paddling on
your side of the big pond, of course! :-)
(The same thing goes for expressions like "deer in the headlights look"
etc.They don't teach that during Dutch highschool English lessons.)

Granted, I've paddled with a few OC-2 couples that worked together
splendidly, and I was pretty content with my own Topo-Duo partner
Niels, but I've seen many more unhappy couples in tandem boats.

One nice example is a Czech couple who used to paddle a C-2 for many
years. They used to fight so much that one of them tended to stop
paddling completely, and invariably they would get in trouble then.
After flipping and swimming a particular class III rapid for the second
time, (carrying back up every time) they came down the third time,
arguing and bickering so much that they both forgot to paddle at all.
They made it all the way down right side up... :-)

Wilko

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