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My longest kayak...

...tow: twenty miles! The boat is only my second longest. Since moving to a house with frontage on a brook that is big enough to paddle when there isn't a drought, I bought a kayak to explore beyond that 200 feet. I liked paddling a boat, so when the summer drought did come, I extended the neck of a cargo trailer to make it long enough to tow the kayak to the Connecticut River, which is quite a bit deeper. It's also longer, so I bought a longer, narrower boat that can, or will, move faster through the water, once I repair a minor divot in the hull from someone being a little too exuberant with a ratchet strap. In the interim, I bought another really cheap plastic boat, with an easy hull repair that I did complete, because it didn't need to be perfect. So now I have a guest boat for when one friend visits. Fortunately, I'm unfriendly enough that one guest boat has sufficed, especially since the two friends who just moved downstream from me bought their own kayaks. Conven...

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