It is easy to laugh along, warm, and sitting in my chair, with everyone as the jargon is dissected. The funny part is most of these terms were spawned out of a real and not-so-funny moment. I will never forget when I was "typewritered" for the first time. Very scary and I still do not know what saved me from a big, cold swim after the river picked up the boat and threw it sideways 20 or so feet off line. When told by a friend what had just happen to me, the term was a perfect description.
I will never forget when I was "typewritered" for the first time. Very scary and I still do not know what saved me from a big, cold swim after the river picked up the boat and threw it sideways 20 or so feet off line. When told by a friend what had just happen to me, the term was a perfect description.
Typewriter - that's something we do on purpose on catboats all the time. Super fun, Super-fast across river ferry, usually initiated with a faux surf attempt. Sometimes you can surf away from the mank, but you gotta be careful, just as easy to surf INTO it. Or at least that applies to me still.
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you too can join the ranks of misfits who have no one else to tell their stories to.
Isn't this why we all come to the Buzz?
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My friend PJ once says to me "you ever done the Poudre?" I reply "Nah, I tried a few times but I never had a girlfriend that was into it" None of the nonboaters in the room thought it was funny.
Window shaded is a metaphor. If you remember the old vinyl window shades, then you probably remember what a pain they were to retract. You'd have to pull them down just a bit to get the spring inside to roll them up (much like the movie screen in a classroom). If you accidentally let go, the shade shot up and went, "whap, whap, whap" as it coiled around itself.
That said, window shaded in kayaking is when a kayak gets stuck sideways in a hole and the kayakers body goes under on one side, gets pushed by the current and they pop up the other side. The momentum then takes them back to the original side where they go back under and the cycle continues. I would be impossible for a cataraft to be window shaded as there is not a single tube for the oarsman to be pivoted around.
With all this language talk, I must admit I am a bit of a post modernist as far as language is concerned. I feel the main point is that intended communication is as close as possible to received communication. I rather enjoyed J-star's post and really didn't have any difficulty picturing exactly what was going on. Pick it apart as you may, I rather liked it.
Great clarification, I knew the reference but thought it was in the vertical plane. However I can now picture exactly what you are saying. Thanks.
Great clarification, I knew the reference but thought it was in the vertical plane. However I can now picture exactly what you are saying. Thanks.
What would you call what I was describing?
pirouetting is what I've heard (if you're talking about spinning around the tips), along with something else I can't now recall. If it's tips over tips, that's open for naming based on the situation.
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