As a lifelong professional writer and researcher, plagiarism and therefore intellectual theft is something one has to live with. Being that this website was founded at the start of 1995 and the Kanuculture books originally researched in 1993 (KC Volume 1 released Christmas 1994) I am familiar with which web sites were in existence at this time and which have manifested since.
Having produced in excess of 12 books, a number of journals and magazines on the subject of outrigger canoeing including a coaching manual, I should not be surprised to see a considerable amount of my work plagerised either in full or homogenised in some guise alluding to someone else's knowledge and research. Such is the nature of the internet and the ever increasing undermining of basic courtesy and ease at which plagerism can now occur.
My biggest annoyance is the simple fact that an individual would allude to having learned and researched the information themselves, thereby making themselves appear more than they are, no doubt to their fellow paddlers. In my opinion, it makes them 'virtual paddlers' devoid of any real substance of thought or character. We regularly visit related web sites and are well aware of a number of individuals who are guilty of this fact. I consider this disrespectful and dishonourable behaviour unbecoming to the very nature of the sport we partake in.
If you wish to add small quotes or anecdotes from any of our publications, in the interests of sharing educational information with your club members or others, so long as you acknowledge the source and reproduce verbatim (in full) then this seems reasonable. Scanning large chunks of my work without permission or acknowledgement I take a not unreasonable dim view of regardless of whether it be a form of flattery or not. Please seek my permission. I am all for the sharing of information, within reason.