: Aye, she looks just ducky to me too -- very very nice, actually! Is
: this a cool hobby or what? I'll bet you're all kinds of excited
: right now!!

: My old girlfriend (I never did go so far as to actually marry one
: of them things) with (for) whom I began building boats took a
: look at a stunning Guillemot at the local put-in -- that I was
: fairly drooling over -- and said "I don't like it".
: Don't like it, are you CRAZY, I asked with utter disbelief.
: "It looks like elf shoes", she said. I still crack up
: every time I think about it, and still use the elf shoes analogy
: to describe the shape of sea kayak ends.

LOLOLOL....elf shoes....I would have never thought of that ;)

now I'll never get it out of my mind.

Bill H.