Chas the chicken

[Jim]

Chas C is too scared to ask his sea paddling questions here, presumably because he's beardless and embarrassed about it, so here is the link to his post on the Inland board:

pub97.ezboard.com/fukrive...=379.topic

I strongly suggest heading over there and hassling him :-)

JIM

[sub5rider]

Errr, I'm beardless too.

Will I be at a significant disadvantage ?

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Fixed the GPS BTW, only to find when I got to college that the firewall had gone up in a puff of smoke. Nipped out to Waterstones for the "How to conf a Linux firewall in a day" book, only to find it out of stock. Had an interesting day masquerading IPs before deciding to wait for the repacement Cisco box tomorrow.
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[Mark R]

Seems to me your beard is firmly in place.


-----------Mark Rainsley

[Jim]

" Errr, I'm beardless too.

Will I be at a significant disadvantage ?"

As I advised chas, you can _probably_ get away with a bandana or balaclava, but you do still have 10 days to try and grow something :-)

As for firewalling in Linux, it takes several days of reading before you know what you want it to do, never mind the time it takes to learn how to set it up. It's an interesting project, but for a critical application, you are better off waiting for the cisco box!

JIM

[Chas C]

Well I have to admit to being a tad unkind in the past taking the micky out of sea paddling friends.

The trip yesterday was good fun, paddling out of Lymington for the 15 mile round trip through the needles to scratchels bay (not sure of spelling) for lunch and back again.

Didn't need a sick or poo bag, could have done with longer paddle, stubble made no difference, never got deserted.

Only problem was landing on the beach, for lunch, it was very steep and paddling an Islander with the smallest ever cockpit, no one told me to pull the deck and jump out quick as soon as the boat started to climb up the bank when surfing in. Needless to say I slid back down the bank into the sea with no paddle or deck on and continued to hand surf up and down the bank a few times till I evenually fell out into about 8' of water (only about 3' from the shore line).

Technically (in WW terms) this would not be classed as a swim though - comments ??.

Chas
(an old croc who has now seen the light)
:rollin :rollin :rollin

[Jim]

Nice one!

The thing about jumping out of sea kayaks is, that even if it's flat calm and they have keyhole cockpits, everyone is so scared of damaging their nice composite boat (even 30 year old battered ones) on rocks or pebbles that they tend to leap out very quickly anyway to minimise the risk of scratching! Of course for your first trip, extracting yourself from an ocean cockpit after 15 miles of lower body inaction is always going to be interesting!

And even in WW terms, that is a swim!

:-)

JIM

[Mark R]

'Technically (in WW terms) this would not be classed as a swim though'

I beg to differ. Keep racking them up, Chas.

Are your WW boats now up for sale?


-----------Mark Rainsley