If you’ve mastered the Eskimo Roll, that will come in handy if you’re fishing for seals. If you’re not working with a harpoon, and have strapped eighty pounds of tackle boxes, beer coolers and a patio umbrella to the deck of your river kayak, don’t expect the Eskimo Roll to save your ass from disaster.
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Those who already own good boats and want to experiment with sail power will find an interesting and very practical conversion plan for detachable tiller, centerboard and mast included in the book. You’d need to tailor the plans to match your boat, but the concept uses readily available raw material that’s strong enough to trust.
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Considering that the souvenirs I acquired from him included a WWII bayonet, an engineer’s set of mapping and survey instruments, a radiation detector and a complete set of government-issue surgical instruments labeled “Venereal Disease Kit,” — all of these things having apparently seen a lot of hard use — it seems he might have been involved in something more than the Missouri mule export-import business.
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