NYCkayaker NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

[Geoff K.]

Here-here, Tracy.

We all need to be very careful about our desires to ban something based 
on what we think makes sense. There are plenty of folks -- like the 
tanker captain Ralph mentioned recently -- who feel that kayakers have 
no "business" being on the water in the harbor. Don't be casting stones 
without being prepared to have some cast at you. The river is a public 
resource, and for 1 day a year they permit this event. We all know it's 
coming, and we need to be tolerant of views that are not our own.

In very indirect ways we paddlers may have even benefited from events 
like this one. Just as our commuter cars have racing pedigree suspension 
and drive train components, the boat racing teams spend lots of money on 
researching and developing new materials like carbon fiber fabrication & 
kevlar skins. Many of us benefit from the technologies originally 
perfected in the high-end powerboat realm.

Let's suck it up, be the inclusive ones, and find a way to share the 
precious resource of the Hudson River. If we start fighting amongst 
ourselves, we may all find our access snatched away one day.

If there were an easy answer to this problem, we would have solved it 
long ago...

-- Geoff

btw, I kind of like bell peppers... ;-)


> Subject:
> Re: NYCkayaker 2007 Poker Run Saturday June 16th
> From:
> Tracy E Bunting-Early <list at tracybphd.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:39:49 -0400
> To:
> <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
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> To:
> <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
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> For those people who are obsessed with eliminating boat races on the 
> Hudson. Please try to focus your energy on the happy things in your 
> life. Leave town when you hear there's one coming up. I hate them too 
> but see the right of those people to have their kind of fun once in a 
> while. Different people like different things.
> Tracy
>
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