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 ====== About Surfski.wiki ======
+{{gallery>locales:bellingham:about_photos?=1&500x500&lightbox&nocache&random&direct&norecursive}}
+<WRAP center round 30%>**Bellingham Bay** \\
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 ===== Conception =====
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-**Surfski.wiki** was conceived and launched by **Dan Mayhew** of **Bellingham, WA, USA** in 2019. As you will learn if you ever visit Bellingham or spend much time on this website, [[:bellingham|Bellingham]] is a great place for paddlers, particularly if you can wrap your paddle around cold water (with the right water clothing and adherence to safety it is easier than most people may think to paddle here year round).
+**Surfski.wiki** was conceived and launched by **Dan Mayhew** of **Bellingham, WA, USA** in 2019. As you will learn if you ever visit Bellingham or spend much time on this website, [[:bellingham|Bellingham]] is a great place for paddlers, particularly if you can wrap your paddle around cold water (with the right [[:clothing_cold|cold water clothing]] and adherence to safety it is easier than most people may think to paddle here year round).
 In announcing the new website Dan described it in the following manner to our local paddlers in Bellingham:
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 ===== It's a wiki - if you build it they will come… =====
-<WRAP indent>Maybe or maybe not. Our impression as of mid 2021 is that learning to use our wiki editor is not as straight forward as we had hoped. The folks who have spent the most time editing the website have discovered enough small glitches and annoyances to conclude that it would be simpler for most paddlers to just email us their information (included in email or as email attachments - text docs, Word docs, jpegs, pngs, pdfs, etc.) and let us enter it into the wiki. So if you do have additions for the wiki please email the information to us - [[surfskiwiki@gmail.com,dan@surfski.wiki|surfski.wiki email]]
+<WRAP indent>Maybe or maybe not. Our impression by mid 2021 was that learning to use our wiki editor is not as straight forward as we had hoped. The folks who have spent the most time editing the website have discovered enough small glitches and annoyances to conclude that it would be simpler for most paddlers to just email us their information (included in email or as email attachments - text docs, Word docs, jpegs, pngs, pdfs, etc.) and let us enter it into the wiki. Larger and/or numerous files can be uploaded to gdrive or dropbox addresses we can provide. //(We have also had problems with spammers, etc. registering on the wiki and had to disable new registrations in 2022 )// So if you do have additions for the wiki please email the information to us - [[surfskiwiki@gmail.com,dan@surfski.wiki|surfski.wiki email]]
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-It is only natural that the creators of this wiki have //home town bias//. Bellingham waters and the Pacific Northwest are what we know the best. But **surfski.wiki** aspires to be an international surfski site, and it can only become more so if it adds the kind of detail about other great paddling locations that we have tried to provide about Bellingham and the local paddling waters that we are most at home in. Our first and foremost source of information was our local paddler discussion group, [[https://groups.io/g/Whatcompaddlers|Whatcom Paddlers]], which has provided a ton of worthwhile information, advice, and humor. Our wiki editors have also drawn a lot of content from prominent surfski websites like [[https://www.surfski.info/|surfski.info]], [[https://tcsurfski.com/|tcsurfski]], and [[https://surfskiracing.org/blog/|surfskiracing]] as well as from hundreds of online videos. We appreciate all of these rich resources but we believe the organization of information on the wiki adds something worthwhile. The poplular surfski blogs, etc. that preceded the wiki have had a mostly blog/"organized" simply by time style which often does not lend itself to easy and successful search for surfski related information.
+It is only natural that the creators of this wiki have //home town bias//. Bellingham waters and the Pacific Northwest are what we know the best. But **surfski.wiki** aspires to be an international surfski site, and it can only become more so if it adds the kind of detail about other great paddling locations that we have tried to provide about Bellingham and the local paddling waters that we are most at home in. Our first and foremost source of information has been our local paddler discussion group, [[https://groups.io/g/Whatcompaddlers|Whatcom Paddlers]] (since 2004), which has provided a ton of worthwhile information, advice, and humor. Our wiki editors have also drawn a lot of content and many references from prominent surfski websites like [[https://www.surfski.info/|surfski.info]], [[https://tcsurfski.com/|tcsurfski]], and [[https://surfskiracing.org/blog/|surfskiracing]] as well as from hundreds of online videos. We appreciate all of these rich resources but we believe the organization of information on the wiki also adds something valuable.
 In any event - **please**, when you have the time and inclination, **[[surfskiwiki@gmail.com,dan@surfski.wiki|send us some ]][[:terminology#beta|beta]] **about your favorite paddling locales. We hope this website will encourage surfskiers around the world to visit [[:bellingham|Bellingham]] and [[:places_surfski|other great places]] to paddle and meet the locals there who love this sport.
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-Bellingham Bay From [[https://live1.brownrice.com/embed/bellingham3|Marine Park Webcam]]
+**Bellingham Bay **photos from [[https://live1.brownrice.com/embed/bellingham3|Marine Park Webcam]] and others
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-{{gallery>locales:bellingham:sunset?=1&700x700&lightbox&nocache&random&direct&norecursive}}
+{{gallery>locales:bellingham:about_photos?=1&700x700&lightbox&nocache&random&direct&norecursive}}
+----
+===== Sea-Fever =====
+By [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-masefield|John Masefield]]
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+I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
+And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
+And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
+And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
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+I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
+Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
+And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
+And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
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+I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
+To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
+And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
+And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
+</WRAP>

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