Saturday, September 24, 2011

Ocean River Gear Grab

A foggy day dawned-- wait a minute, does a foggy day actually dawn? Or does it just slowly emerge from the darkness of the night? In any event, it was foggy this morning as Louise and I headed down to Ocean River Sports for their annual fall sale. We were a little late, so we had to go to the back of a very long line....
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....although it seemed like some people would wear almost any disguise to sneak in.
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We checked out the boats....
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...and Louise checked out a couple of them very closely.
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We got away lightly this time. Louise didn't buy anything, and I replaced my long-serving Kokatat PFD with the latest model. And we saw something that you don't see everyday:
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He was either plugging Icebreaker , or one of the start of semester parties got a little out of hand last night.
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  1. Mark and Robyn ByrneOctober 11, 2011 6:39 am

    Hey! In the picture of Delta's on the rack my wife (Robyn) and I (Mark) are there! Cool. I did't take any pictures at the Gear Grab so it was neat to see this one. We have decided to purchase a couple of 15.5 Expeditions after trying the Sport version a couple weeks ago.

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  2. Mark and Robyn ByrneOctober 11, 2011 6:41 am

    Sorry.. that is the Current Designs rack picture

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  3. JohnOctober 11, 2011 8:03 pm

    Hi, Mark and Robyn! Let us know how your Deltas work out for you. Cheers!

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  4. Mark and Robyn ByrneOctober 17, 2011 10:05 pm

    Hi John, we are in the process of purchasing the Delta's through OR. What is the length / version of your Delta's? Hope to meet you both one day.

    Mark

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  5. JohnOctober 18, 2011 8:47 pm

    Hi Mark
    We started in Delta 14.5's which we just loved, but after a couple of years we wanted something a little bigger so we traded them in at OR. Louise got a 17 Sport and I got an 18.5 Expedition, which we also love, although with Louise sometimes it's a love/hate thing and sometimes she wishes she'd got the 16 instead. :)
    We're looking for new paddling partners -- all ours seem to move away. :) Might be fun to get together and swap Delta stories.

    Cheers,
    John
    spuzzum42@hotmail.com

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