Re: [Paddlewise] Advanced Rescue Clinic

Sisler, Clyde wrote:
> 
> > (you'll see some pretty creative ideas).  Once you are back in your
> > boat
> > you can now have a discussion on how you are going to keep water out
> > of
> >
>         Any thoughts on how to pump water out of the cockpit in rough
> seas by yourself?    I finally got to see the end of the Eco-Challenge
> with the Seals swamped out and waves breaking over the boat which
> brought the problem back to mind.

I think it would have been tough pumping it out.  Doubles are a bitch to
empty.  Besides, something about the way the boat looked suggested that
there was water in one of the compartments as well, possibly a hatch not
closed correctly.  The only way of dumping the water out fast would have
been running the swamped boat hull up over the boat that was okay.

The victim crew did have enough sense to get up on top of the sinking
craft in order to minimize their cold water exposure.

I am puzzled.  The SEAL guys seemed to have a good snappy correct
paddling stroke but seemed clueless on an emptying technique.  Some SEAL
teams get exposed to extensive SAS/SBS training with the Brits.  It is
an individual commander decision.  But the Brits use Klepper folding
doubles pretty exclusively, which are extremely hard to tip.  And so
they may not have experienced capsizes much although one would think
they would practice such.  I also didn't think the woman had any sense
of how to paddle.  She was handling her paddle the way you see canoeists
sometimes handle one.  They treat the double blade paddle like a very
long canoe paddle reaching to each side with the blade and holding the
shaft quite vertical.  In wind and choppy seas, she would have thrown
the boat off balance with each stroke and exposed them to getting pushed
over by a gust catching her upper blade.
 
>         I have one of those grey and red pumps (I dis-remember the
> brand) and don't think it's long enough to fit down through the waist of
> my spray skirt and operate it with the spray skirt attached.

The normal grey/red one will reach into most of the bilge water in a
boat.  I notice that Feathercraft sells a shorty; I don't think it would
work well for that purpose.

> 
> > like those I paddle with, they will, before the day is out, be wanting
> > to try the curl themselves.
> >
>         I'm not familiar withthe curl off hand.  I do have a couple of
> books I have to go back over again.

I am not certain what is being referred to either by that term.

> 
> > by question or topic by topic rather than go into great detail about
> > everything all at once.)
> >
>         Why not?  You'd then have the basis for a book, make lots of
> money and be able to spend the rest of your life kayaking :-).

Believe me.  Kayak paddling books won't make anyone rich :-)  But you
don't have to be rich to spend the rest of your life paddling.  It is
okay to do it poor.

ralph
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