9/8/2017 0 Comments Plus One Obvious RaritanPaddle. Wise - Who's Who J- KThese lists give brief stories & descriptions. Paddle. Wise. A few. The Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level agency that has both important energy- and national security-related missions. DOE’s roots go all the.The. list will be regularly updated. These posts may not be reproduced or redistributed. Search Member By Last Name: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Note: All email addresses have been subjected to a simple code to prevent. To decode. substitute . I love self- propelled transport, and have thoroughly enjoyed. I'd move to. Maine in a heartbeat.. Texas for. some place warm, on the water with good kayaking, and cheap to live. Corpus. Christi won out. Then hit kayak symposiums at Bayfield WI, Grand Haven and. Grand Marais MI, Port Townsend WA, Charleston SC, and Tampa/St Pete FLA. World War I; Clockwise from the top: The aftermath of shelling during the Battle of the Somme, Mark V tanks cross the Hindenburg Line, HMS Irresistible sinks after. ABA's Birding News >> New York New York bird news by date. Updated on August 13, 2017, 5:15 pm. Want to easily find posts that mention ABA rare birds? See the top 15 shore towns in NJ. The best NJ shore towns to take a weekend getaway in New Jersey. Best weekend getaways down the shore. Top shore towns in NJ. Hope some of you will take up my offer. Corpus Christi. I have learned a few things and have had a good laugh a few times. I started paddling about 1. New. Brunswick and really started paddling with a vengeance when I moved from the. Prairies to British Columbia about 8 years ago. Live in Chicago Illinois and enjoy paddling on Lake Michigan. I am primarily a day paddler, with my longest trips being. Baja Mexico. Been paddling since '9. I'm still very much a. I can manage a Pawlata roll on a good day : ) I am secretly getting my. I can. Since I live on the water I commute to work by Kayak. Yes I know, life's rough) and hope to continue the trend in FL. I get there. I paddle a WS Sealution II XS and I like it a lot. I am. currently in the market for a K- light (Hint Hint) as my time aboard ship means. I can't bring a stiffy along with me. I have been paddling in places such as. Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Australia and the Persian Gulf (not. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, but that ought to give everyone a. I am. I have Euro, Wing and Greenland paddles; boats with. I have experienced both sides of most arguments I. I have been paddling for over. I know I really need at least one more. I have paddled thousands of miles. I love to travel and my best trip so far was a 7 week 1. Blackhawk Zephyr (solo touring canoe) in Quetico. I love sharing my favorite. Houston, TX with visitors. As a part of the paddlesports industry, I have paddled. My lifetime goal of. Photography. Current events. Environmental and. Regular speaker at a. Sanford (1. 62. 00 ft.) in 1. Ascent. of Mt. Mc. Kinley (2. 03. 00 ft.) in 1. Kayak descent of the entire Noatak River in. Alaska's Brooks Range in 1. Kayak circumnavigation of Lake Superior's Isle. Royale in 1. 98. 4; Bicycling across Europe from France to Romania (1. Kayak circumnavigation of Glacier Bay from Juneau and back (3. North - South kayak crossing of Lake Superior in 1. Kayak. circumnavigation of Lake Superior without resupply (1. This thread makes it. That got me in touch with the mountains and the vast. I went on to bicycle pretty much every dirt road north of. Latitude in Alaska and the Yukon. After some years backpacking the Brooks. Range, and mountaineering, I started to have to work more seriously for a. Several trips to Baja and an almost annual trip to. Everglades or Florida Keys helps to keep the ice off the kayaks. I also write a column for Canoe & Kayak magazine. I can mine out of the Paddle. Wise stream. I still bicycle to work year- round, thanks to studded mountain bike. I can tell as time goes on, that. It made transport off. My focus has. shifted during that time from running rivers to going fast on flat water to. I'm always honing technical skills. The Gulf of Mexico is. A flood on Cross Bayou in. Shreveport took that first boat (and darn near drowned my foolish hypothermic. I replaced it (the boat) with a MR Explorer. Still somehow feeling invincible and anxious to play hard I took. Pacific that first summer and through the surf at. Pirates Cove only to dump, flounder and ( long story short) wash up, wind. Manzanita from where, after a night in the ICU, I emerged with a proper fear of. Compelled to return (kicking and screaming) 3 years later to. Louisiana by the National Health Service Corp I bought a Jenson C1. W as a. consolation prize for cruising the bayous and commenced to learn to cruise. Since rudders had thrice failed on me (once in a critical situation and. I knew that dependence on them was. The current. quiver of boats includes: a solo and a tandem cruising canoes, a Dagger. Response, an Orion OF boat built by Wenonah, the Arluk 1, a Seda Impulse of my. Nautiraid. Greenlander, an original Aleut Sea 2 made by Pure Perfection Custom in Wales. P& H Sirius, Foster Rowe Silhouette and, a Findeisen X surf ski. Lemon Baidarka (all my heart). Lemon Baidarka (nearly all my heart). North Shore Fuego (heavy British, heavy... I say? CLC Patuxent 1. For racing, or those occasions when public. Mega Jester Storm (International surf boat) It's still trying. Early proto- type of a Necky Rip (glass) Carves nicely in the. Necky Gliss (Plastique) Does carve flatspins in the. I'd tell you... but this is a family. Assorted stitch and glues - - completed, some under nearly. Some on the never- never rack. SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE: working on it. Strong opinions: ... Me??? Most interesting trip: A rather tame moonlight paddle with the pod in. Savannah, up the Vernor river into tide swollen irrigation streams, from. Tolkien novel. Sharp eye out for orks. BIO: married coming onto 2. California...! Yuppies must have perfect leather in their Range Rovers. Iverbon. et. al, permit me to introduce myself as well, and give a bit of my paddling. Iverbon brought to mind a Geographic article and photo essay on. Peary which included a bevy of comely Inuit maidens, linked shoulder to. That part of. New Jersey was all dairy farms and silage corn back then, as landscaping with. Except for the hiss of. Sunday driver on the adjacent road, all. That kayak surfed as one would. Then. came the discovery of okome and the good people at Chesapeake Light Craft, and. I have, at this moment. Volvo was evicted some years ago... Too long a distance to go there each. So you will find me usually very often on the rivers. EMS) and on some bigger lakes in the Netherlands. I am. organized with some of my friends in the german . I am not yet too good in eskimorolling, allthough I am teaching. I fell in love with seakayaks. I am a very proud. CALYPSO from NORTH - SHORE. Each member of. my four person family has his own seakayak. Unfortunately my three girls only. I will never forget these happy summerdays of paddling. We all really fell in. Perhaps you can imagine now, why we want to go to the Aland. Archipelagos in the Baltic sea. It is a real dream and we want it to come true. We think, that should be a good date. If there's any coherent theme, though, it's probably a deep distrust. But I've also done a bit of paddling on some of. South Korea, with landscapes (brooding cliffs, layers of. Oriental hanging- scroll brush- . And since kayaking (other than as an Olympic sport) is totally unknown. I'm inclined to tell other kayakers about it, but on the other. Apart from this new- found. I am an indoorsy, bookish, married forty- six year old with a very young. I've been sea kayaking. SF Bay Area since 1. I put all my outdoors adventures in the. Jew (picture Woody Allen in a sea kayak). Growing up. the only wildlife I saw consisted of the rabbits and robins in the back yard. I. thought horses were extinct (I only saw them on TV), and I didn't see the Milky. Way till I went to Girl Scout Camp in Wisconsin (urban lights were too bright). So I figure even just getting into. I've paddled SF Bay, creeks and estuaries, up and. California coast, San Juans, Lake Michigan, Baja, a touch of the. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea around the Island of Elba Italy. The Elba connection came about when I wrote a letter to the Italian Sea. Kayaking Association (address from the back of Sea Kayaker Mag.) asking about. Italy's Cinque Terre region. In reply they invited me to join them. Elba, and once I was there, they asked me to help them organize. English. Elba is gorgeous, the. I'm in my fourth year of association with. Elba Sea Kayak Center. My new husband John Dixon and I will be there in May. I'll be co- leading the spring trip. What is a 1. 0- handicapper? Open Challenge is played at Torrey Pines on the eve of the U. S. Open, we'll see a test that is perfect in scale. A 1. 0- handicapper trying to break 1. Torrey, in front of a gallery, national TV audience and three celebrities playing alongside him, would experience a challenge in any case. But with the course in murderously difficult condition, it will be the golf equivalent of climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. His quest will demonstrate how ridiculously hard a U. S. Open course really is, in a language we can understand. Unlike players at other skill levels, a 1. Here are some glimpses into what's behind a 1. WHAT IS A HANDICAP, AND WHY HAVE ONE? A handicap is a measure of a golfer's potential ability compared to an expert amateur's ability. Getting a handicap will help make your matches fair by eliminating the guesswork in the allocation of strokes for players of varying abilities. Posting your results consistently will also help you track your scoring trends. HOW IS YOUR NUMBER COMPUTED? A player actually has two numbers: the Handicap Index and the Course Handicap. The Handicap Index is arrived at by plugging in raw scores and computing them using a formula involving, among other things, the USGA Course Rating and Slope Rating of the course where the round was played. The Course Rating is a numerical depiction of how difficult a course is for a 0- handicap (scratch) player. The USGA defines the male 0- handicapper as someone who drives the ball at least 2. A Course Rating is determined by the cumulative length of holes, and the difficulty of obvious obstacles such as sand and water. When a 1. 0- handicapper describes a course as . On a course with a 7. Slope Rating, which the USGA instituted in 1. Instead of placing an emphasis on the sheer length of a course and obvious obstacles, Slope considers factors that affect the bogey golfer more dramatically than the scratch player. They include topographical features such as hitting to elevated greens; the width of the fairways, trees, water and bunkers that more frequently come into play for the weaker player; the size and contours of greens; and so on. Though a scratch player might consider these factors just a nuisance, they can be significant for the bogey golfer. Poorer players' scores rise exponentially when playing courses with a high Slope Rating, so they need their Course Handicap adjusted upward accordingly. Though a 0- handicapper playing a difficult course might not need a handicap adjustment, a 1. For the Handicap Index, the low 1. Why not use all 2. Because handicaps are intended to define the golfer's potential. If all 2. 0 scores were considered, the scores shot on bad days would make any player's handicap inordinately high and give a huge advantage if he were to have a good day. This is particularly true among high- handicappers, whose erratic play produces many high scores that would inflate the handicap. The average of the low 1. The 1. 0- handicapper generally carries an Index between 9. The Course Handicap is the whole number the golfer plays with in weekend matches or formal competition. You get that number by matching your Handicap Index against a chart tacked on a wall at the course you're playing (right). Two key points: Players are expected to make the best score they can at every hole in every round, regardless of where the round is played, and players should post every acceptable round for peer review. The USGA stipulates that golfers are required to post scores whenever they play at least seven holes. If seven to 1. 2 holes are played, that score is posted as a nine- hole round. If 1. 3 or more holes are played, the score should be posted as an 1. If you've completed only 1. In the case of a 1. If a player doesn't finish a hole or is conceded a stroke, you record the . Open yardage, and a USGA Course Rating of 7. Slope of 1. 53 was assigned. If a player with a 1. Handicap Index were to play at Torrey, the Course Handicap would be 1. To further appreciate how difficult Torrey will be, consider that the highest Course Rating in America is the 8. The Pines course at The International in Bolton, Mass. The highest Slope Rating is the 1. The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island from the back tees. For handicap purposes the double- digit score can't be allowed to stand because it would indicate an 1. With Equitable Stroke Control (ESC), every golfer is assigned a maximum score allowable on a hole. The limit depends on the player's Course Handicap (not the Handicap Index). As the table below shows, a 1. So a player who shoots 1. Because the high 1. With that, a 1. 0- handicapper playing a course with a reasonably difficult 7. Course Rating will, on a good day, shoot within three strokes of 8. Expect some variance, but not much - - research has shown that players shoot lower than their handicaps only once every five rounds, and they beat their handicap by three strokes once every 2. The odds of someone beating a handicap by eight strokes are 1,1. Even without seeing 1. They almost surely drive the ball at least 2. Most 1. 0s usually get out of sand in one try. They possess some course- management skills; they are more apt than a high- handicapper to choose enough club to get over a pond in front of the green. They also are decent putters, especially from long range - - because they don't hit their iron shots close to the hole, they lag their approach putts close enough to save a lot of pars. Most 1. 0s got there in part from experience, and their extensive exposure to the game has given them a passable knowledge of the rules. The lower the player's handicap, the tighter the score dispersion. A scratch player on a course of average difficulty will typically shoot 6. Conversely, a 2. 5- handicapper will typically shoot 9. The 1. 0 tends to be about in the middle in score deviation. HOW GOOD IS A 1. 0- HANDICAPPER COMPARED TO OTHER GOLFERS? Men with an Index of 1. Players with a 1. The national average Handicap Index for men is 1. USGA began tracking Golf Handicap and Information Network (GHIN) trends. Although golf courses in general are longer and more difficult, a 1. HOW MANY STROKES WOULD A 1. HANDICAPPER NEED TO HAVE A CHANCE AGAINST TIGER WOODS? Consider that on the PGA Tour from August 2. January 2. 00. 7, the low 1. Tiger's 2. 0 scores produced a Handicap Index of plus- 7. In a real- world setting, Tiger probably would be even better than that because the courses he played in that time were more difficult than for member play, especially Medinah for the PGA Championship. So their Course Ratings and Slopes were conservative. If a match between Tiger and a 1. Torrey Pines, Tiger would have a Course Handicap of plus- 9. A player with a 1. Index would have a Course Handicap of 1. And it probably wouldn't be enough, not only because most amateurs tend to score higher in competition, but because Tiger is more likely to play closer to his handicap under any circumstances. A FACTOR TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A PARTNER IS THE 'ANTI- HANDICAP.'Two players can carry the same 1. Handicap Index but have a wide divergence in the 1. By examining the throw- out results, you can discern what the 1. It can be a crucial consideration, because these less- than- stellar days occur half the time. If the 1. 0- handicapper's throw- out scores are relatively close to the counting scores, the player is regarded as a . This is why the USGA recommends that in multiple- ball competitions (best ball out of the foursome being most typical in club events), golfers should play at only 9. Course Handicaps (the 1. If the spread between players is greater than eight strokes, the USGA recommends cutting by an additional 1. In four- ball match play, 1. If you're a Steady Eddie, a short but straight hitter with a good touch around the greens whose round- to- round scores are fairly consistent, you should team with a Wild Willie - - a long but wild hitter who is apt to make a couple of net birdies and eagles to complement a spate of triple bogeys.
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