Comments on: FEATURE MADNESS

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:42:48 +0000

Michael

If you get that camper feature on your Element, I MUST SEE IT. I’ve been jonseing for one for my toaster and think it would be beyond fantabulous. I live in my car (as a rep) and it would nice to have a place to sleep where I can’t roll over into stinky neoprene in the middle of the night.

By: Dominique Sellier

Dominique Sellier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:20:09 +0000

My brother once worked for a manufacturing company to design a very upscale kitchen stove – comment he received once the mandate had been given to him: have fun, and remember the most important knob is the one that switches the whole thing back to manual.

Also, from a Hi-Fi audio store salesman : the worst clients are musicians – they know in their minds how it really sounds, and they really don’t care how it sounds – they buy the cheap stuff.

These two always helped me keep things in perspective… except I always forget when discussing hull shape and maybe a new kayak…

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:37:53 +0000

…brat…

By: rjimlad

rjimlad — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:19:45 +0000

A secondary ‘feature’ of our chosen sport/lifestyle is arguing over the equipment. Every night I indulge in kayak porn searching for stuff and seeing what everyone else is using. Then I buy it and defend my choice with a word war. It’s one of the attractions of the sport. I’ve never seen an activity so feature rich and gadget friendly. Sometimes I’ll start a fight between rudders and rudderless then slip out leaving it raging, or plastic versus composite or Olympus versus Pentax. I love it. A good way to get blog fodder too ;-

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:35:03 +0000

(I’m still giggling…) Someone WOULD have to bring up skegs again, wouldn’t they?

And I still love my slow-to-boil Trangia because it fills MY criteria for the perfect stove – it’s quiet, so you can start your coffee water in the morning without earplugs; it’s not pressurized, so it doesn’t have that “boom” factor that tends to scare me; it’s reasonably compact (enough for a kayak, anyhow); and any of its moving parts (1) can be fixed by me with a minimum of fuss and equipment. My “real” job has gotten me used to tools that have to function when the s**t hits the fan; that spills over into the rest of my life as well. But…that’s me! Everybody different, thanks God!

Have fun with the plans!