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| This brings up a point I was planning to get out some time ago. There are some spectators along the bluffs that call the CG when they see a boater in the water. | This brings up a point I was planning to get out some time ago. There are some spectators along the bluffs that call the CG when they see a boater in the water. | ||
| - | On one of our storm paddles I pulled out early and was watching the fun from the Marine Park. A fella next to me was in a high state of anxiety about the whole show. About then Mike G. took a cool-off swim and this guy was reaching for his cell-phone. I didn't want to come across as putting him down, so I told him calmly about Mike's San Fransisco story. The one where he gets dumped out of the ocean standing on his feet next to a dumbfounded fisherman. The guy calmed down. | + | On one of our storm paddles I pulled out early and was watching the fun from the Marine Park. A fella next to me was in a high state of anxiety about the whole show. About then Mike G. took a cool-off swim and this guy was reaching for his cell-phone. I didn't want to come across as putting him down, so I told him calmly about Mike's San Fransisco story. The one where he gets dumped out of the ocean standing on his feet next to a dumbfounded fisherman. The guy calmed down. (Mike's story: [[:races:us_nationals_2003or2004#paddler_from_another_planet|Paddler from Another Planet]]) |
| Seems like a lot of folks yearn for tragedy and excitement. I keep hoping that soon they will get bored once they see that it's a sit-on-top. I guess the next time you go in, look up at the bluff and blow a kiss to the old women looking at you through their spotting scopes. | Seems like a lot of folks yearn for tragedy and excitement. I keep hoping that soon they will get bored once they see that it's a sit-on-top. I guess the next time you go in, look up at the bluff and blow a kiss to the old women looking at you through their spotting scopes. | ||
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