I talked with my cousin in Port Townsend about it yesterday and first thing he talked about was bears. He knows people who do the race Lot of places along the way where you haul out are wild and full of nasty bears

Reminded me of a place in cal I crude-camped with a friend we had blankets fishing poles and a rifle which I was hugging all night long

Every morning we woke up with bear prints all around us some right next to our heads

Canadian bears are a different story

For speed maybe look into this or maybe you already have

Mr X you picked a good one and we shouldnt all sound so negative! If I didn’t have a wife and 17 year old son I’d polish up the stealth and do it. Obviously you know the conditions will be extreme and that’s part of what it’s about

The ncka crew leans to the safety side of things and some w experience in rescue so that’s where all the cautions come from, all worth paying attention to

Especially about the repaired plastic maybe stuff every unused crevice on the AI floatation would be a good idea, you probably already did that
 
Back when I looked into it I wasn’t thinking of it as a race just a summer trip and planned to hit land here and there to camp. One of my pieces of essential gear was going to be a 38 or better

All that aside it’s an intriguing trip and wish I could do it myself

Maybe next year with my son

A guy I know who is a small dealer in nor cal (Chester) told me the new ownership pulled the plug on small dealers also

I was surprised to hear Hobie had sold the company

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I still have a drysuit that’s pushing 50 years old that I should stuff in the can for the next garbage day

I worked in it for a while and pretty quickly went back to my wetsuit for a couple of reasons the main one being the drysuit was awkward to swim in

The new suits might be different Seems like one of the divers from up north posted something here in their favor but keep in mind they are wearing fins. One thing a wetsuit has in its favor is floatation, not sure how the new drysuits are in that regard

My old drysuit has a valve on the chest that connected to my hookah rig to regulate floatation at different depths. One of the things I hated was as I moved around underwater the air shifted and would inflate a leg or whatever body part was up

Not a problem if you’re swimming at the surface and sporting a pfd but in my experience wetsuits are just easier to swim in

The F&G Commission hired a consulting firm to train staff, and commissioners on JEDI. I watched their presentation, and listened to the public comments. The commenters stated that only 5% of the general public hunt, or fish. So to them JEDI meant that the commission members should reflect the general public and be 95% non-hunters, or fishers.

This whole thing so smacks of foundations’ involvement