Could someone please advise me on the value of lots of cornmeal on hand? Also, I would like to find a boat capable of being rowed, able to withstand two foot waves, yet sturdy enough to fish out of. I was thinking about something a little bigger than a kayak, and more stable for a non-kayaker. Thanks

-- Rick Reilly (rreilly @home.com), February 04, 1999

Answers

Cormeal mush, tamales, corn bread, corn breading, hush puppies, griddle cakes, mexican corn pudding...any good cook book will give you recipes calling for corn meal.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), February 05, 1999.

The value of stored corn meal for me is stictly only short term. It loses flavor and nutritional value too fast for the old bear. Better to have the whole kernel and grind it as needed.

Let me know when you're going to be rowing in two foot waves so that I can envoke Greybears #1 rule - When the going gets rough, I want to be somewhere else.

Greybear

- just my opinion, and yeah, I know, opinions are like noses - everybody has one and they all smell.

- Got a grinder?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), February 05, 1999.

You're looking at at least 10-12 foot jon boat or more for stability, storage, and access - bait, tanks, rods, reels, lifejacket, second person, etc. Quite a load if you're going to eat off of what you catch. Ugly, relative cheap, but inefficient to row long ways.

Cover of a kayak is a good idea to keep water out - but there is little practical way to fish from it. Canoe is longer, not much more stable, and very tippy when reaching into watr, turning, twisting, etc.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), February 05, 1999.

Would this be for river, ocean, (very turbulent lake?) Just curious.

-- Mr_Kennedy (y2kPCfixes@motivatedseller.com), February 05, 1999.

Greybear:

Didn't you mean to say "When the rowing gets tough..."

-- Bob Benson (appysys@inreach.com), February 05, 1999.

If you have ever been to the Jersey shore, the answer comes easily. New Jersey style Life Boat. Can be rowed by one man, very seaworthy, and enough room to do some fishin'.

-- Uncle Deedah (oncebitten@twiceshy.com), February 05, 1999.

Bob,

I abase myself to one and all in you presence.

Dam, how did I miss that one. Mama Bear will never believe it.

She thinks I stay up late nights just think up puns.

Greybear

- Got humility?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), February 05, 1999.

Arise Greybear, we go shoulder to shoulder into the fray.

Arise Greybear, we seek the words with which to play.

-- Bob Benson (appysys@inreach.com), February 05, 1999.

A good pun is born, not maid.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), February 05, 1999.

Seriously consider an Adirondak Guide boat. Wider and more stable than a canoe, kind of like a 2 bowed traditional row-boat. Check with the Adirondak Mountain Museum, in Blue Mountain Lake, NY for descriptions. I understand there are some boat makers in teh region who have resurected the design.

Chuck, once called "Bark Eater" by Chief St. Dennis of the local tribe (which in itself is a LOOONG story)

-- Chuck, night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 05, 1999.