The Open Water Committee provides an educational and social environment for sea kayakers to expand their paddling skills and to network with others in their sport throughout Michigan.
We emphasize safety by encouraging our members to get appropriate
skills, equipment, and physical conditioning; and to use good judgment
in matching their choice of paddling destination with their current
abilities.
PEARSON'S LAWS OF SEA KAYAKING
By Karl Pearson
This listing is a compilation of serious and not-so-serious truisms
that have been observed in a decade of sea kayaking
PEARSON'S FIRST LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
Kayakers always buy vehicles that are four inches taller than they
can reach.
PEARSON'S SECOND LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
No matter how large the body of water, or how few the kayaks, they
will make physical contact.
PEARSON'S THIRD LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
You will always need whatever you decide not to take that day.
PEARSON'S FOURTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
In every group, someone will have mis-represented their abilities
in order to be included.
PEARSON'S FIFTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
When someone looks to be having trouble, but says they're okay -
they're not.
PEARSON'S SIXTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
A small boat on the horizon will be huge by the time you get to
where it is going.
PEARSON'S SEVENTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
If you borrow something, even for a moment, it will not float .
. .
PEARSON'S EIGHTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
There are two kinds of sea kayakers: those who have been sea-sick,
and those that have not yet been sea-sick.
PEARSON'S NINTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
The bigger, heavier or slower the boat - the smaller the blade.
PEARSON'S TENTH LAW OF SEA KAYAKING:
The answer to 90% of all paddling problems is: "Loosen your
grip !"
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