>If you have had an accidental capsize I would be interested in hearing the >details. > >Rob Cookson Other than playing in surf, I've had one incident where I was paddling a spring fed river with moderate to gentle current and a lot of overhang and twisting winding curves. I two inch end of a branch caught the shoulder strap of my pfd, the current pulled the boat sideways and as the current pulled, the branch bent down dragging me under. There was no way I could pull my pfd strap off the end of the branch against the force of the current holding me down. As soon as I wet exited and let go of my boat the spring of the branch pulled me back up. I normally would never come out of my boat but in this case it was me or the boat! This really opened my eyes to how even a lazy Sunday paddle could develop into a problem. Robert -- Orlando ________________________________________________________ Robert Starling Member ASMP / APSG Robert Starling Photography, Inc. Orlando, Florida Phone 407 521-0041 Fax 407 521-0031 http://www.starling.com NetGuide Magazine Internet Site Of The Day *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
At 23:38 17/02/98 EST, you wrote: >Hi folks, > >I have read with interest most of the safety discussions that have taken place >here and on Wavelength. I am curious, how many sea kayakers have had an >accidental capsize while tripping? That is a touring capsize rather than one >caused by playing (surfing, playing in eddies etc.) or skillbuilding. > >If you have had an accidental capsize I would be interested in hearing the >details. > >Thanks and Happy Paddling! > >Rob Cookson >*************************************************************************** Capsizes? It's a water sport, so get wet! Accidental capsizes while touring: - one on a two day trip - coming in at the edge of the surf zone, Coledale Beach, NSW - another weekend trip - leaving Era Beach, NSW both before I had adequate surfing skills - three consecutive capsizes in ugly surf at Loaders Beach, during the BCE Sea Proficiency assessment - two screw rolls then one Pawlata - one coming in at some beach on the NSW South Coast after paddling 35 km into a strong Southerly, during the BCE Advanced Sea Proficiency assessment weekend - recovery with a screw roll - one capsize off Point Perpendiclar, Jervis Bay, in an offshore gale, when broached with the paddle tangled in a towline (!) - recovery with a wet exit and assisted rescue - one capsize over the reef at the northern end of Montague Island, while turning to watch the seals play in the reef break - off-side screw roll - two capsizes while paddling in a once-in-twenty-year storm, 55 knot winds and 6.5 metre significant wave height just offshore and 45 knots where we were playing - both capsizes when turning around and broached at a wave crest, no water underneath the paddle and blown over by a gust - recovery by a carefully timed screw roll in the next trough and _with_ the wind, but against the wave - hundreds of accidental capsizes while surfing for fun - hundreds of deliberate capsizes for practice - dozens of capsizes under pressure of competition in the first season of canoe polo, until I learned to brace properly on my left side with the (curse it!) _feathered_ paddle One reason that I can think of, to explain why so few accidental capsizes is that one's bracing skills improve in line with one's ability to roll. If you learn to roll well, you won't need to! Andrew Eddy *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
> snip > >here and on Wavelength. I am curious, how many sea kayakers have had an > >accidental capsize while tripping? That is a touring capsize rather than one > >caused by playing (surfing, playing in eddies etc.) or skillbuilding. > > > >If you have had an accidental capsize I would be interested in hearing the > >details. > > > >Thanks and Happy Paddling! > > > >Rob Cookson On a river trip I was pushing back into the current along with a few other boats when someone on the bank had a map question and grabbed my bow handle to stop my launch, already in progress. The boat immediately tipped and I tried to brace upstream. It almost worked but I had laid over so far the current popped my skirt and filled the boat. My dog and I both swam much to the astonishment of the person still holding my boat. They didn't realize a sea kayak doesn't quite spin around like a whitewater boat. I was amazed also, one minute I was relaxing back letting the current gently pull me from the bank and the next second I was bracing as hard as I could, then with a whoosh, the boat and I were separated. Alice *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
Andrew Eddy wrote: > Capsizes? It's a water sport, so get wet! > > Accidental capsizes while touring: [ heaps of ungraceful kayak manoevres deleted ] Sounds to me like you're accident prone... a handy attribute for an instructor and NSWSKC trip coordinator... ;-) Or is it like the guy in 'Catch 22' who spent all his time in the airforce practicing getting shot up and crashing because one day the skill would come in handy? > If you learn to roll well, you won't need to! You always need to - if only to show off to those who can't... and it is the only way to check out seals and fish on their home turf... -- jim (who fell out of his boat 4 times on flat water on the Murray Marathon, and although he admits it is a watersport, doesn't like getting wet) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
Andrew Eddy wrote: > Capsizes? It's a water sport, so get wet! > > Accidental capsizes while touring: > > -Snip o > Thank you Andrew for what I suspect has to be one of the most well logged and honest responses to "How many times have you capsized?" yet. Regards Wayne Langmaid PS - I may be interested in that King Island Circumnavigation in April with you. I am off with Doug "Headwind" Fraser and a few others for the Bass Strait Crossing from Wilson Prom to Tassie in about an hour (a nice little 300 km jaunt), so I'll get ahold of you when we get back *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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