Re: 3 Kayakers Pointedly Ignored Me

Posted by MarkR on
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Who knows why they ignored your presence.  I've found a lot of plastic boaters are just oblivious to the wooden boat.  A boat is an appliance to them and it just doesn't matter.  That's OK - they don't share an appreciation of a well-crafted vessel which is the product of human hands, not a chopper gun and a mould.  

A lot of boaters are focused on one type of boat - if your boat isn't the type, then they don't care.

Some fisherman seem to think that the only thing that floats is an aluminum boat.  

There's a place in this world for all of us.  Maybe, sometime in the future, two of those guys might sit down over a beer and say: "...remember that guy with the little wooden boat at Smith & Bybee...?"   We never know how we influence the world by following our own paths.