Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:51:55 -0400
From: Chris Kohut <chriskayak@earthlink.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Hull ID numbers for US Coast Guard
Sounds like an urban (suburban,?submarine?) myth to me....... I quite
agree, the burden
of proof is on those whose homemade baidarkas have been actually
impounded for lacking a 14 digit id number. Wolfgang? Speak up!
Anyone???
For more neat urban myths go to
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ they're a
hoot! Actually this sounds a bit to me like a book I once read about
an anthropologist who went about trying to quantify the practice of
cannibalism from first-hand (sorry, no pun intended) sources. (One
man's meat is another man's person?)(Somebody stop me!) Well the upshot
was that he got plenty of "Oh yeah, those heathens on the next ridge do
it all the time....." responses. But no hard eyewitness or firsthand
testimony.(He came back alive, I guess.) This was repeated everywhere
he went.... Anyway...... I heard that after the Coast Guard impounds
the baidarkas.....they make soup of the paddlers. (On the other
hand....if it is true...how 'bout C.O.A.S.T.I.E.S. S.U.C.K 99 for a id
number? Here's yer digit bub! Just kidding! Holster that thing
again!) Ok. the petty bureaucrat coasties in Washington who never get
salt spray in their little paramedic mustaches are the ones who have too
much time on their hands (ie: suck.) Agreed? But then only on the
outside chance if it proves out!
Chris
Kirk Olsen wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karl_Schlenker@umit.maine.edu (Karl Schlenker)
>
> >> Wayne Eden wrote:
>
> >> Without the legal 12 digit Hull ID # your kayak can be impounded--they
> >> won't worry with boarding it, they'll just yank her aboard and drop
> >you,
> >> sans kayak, at the dock.
>
> I haven't given this issue much thought (and no research), but I do
> have one question that I'd like to ask of everyone, and it is this:
> Has anyone had a kayak impounded by USCG for not having a hull number?
> (..I know of someone who knows of someone's cousin who had it happen to
> them... doesn't count)
>
> Karl Schlenker