RE: [Paddlewise] FW: Re-entry and roll?

     
     I was practicing my rentry roll in a pool and was having
     some problems.  It works most of the time, but not often
     enough that I would feel safe depending on it in a cold,
     rough water emergency.
     
     A friend of mine (who is a certified kayak instructor) was in
     the pool that night and pointed out that he always puts a paddle 
     float on before doing the re-entry roll.  With a paddle float on
     the blade, the rentry-roll is easy.  More importantly, once you've
     rolled up, you have a nice stable out-rigger to use while you  
     pump the water out of your boat.
     
     This makes a huge amount of sense to me.  If the seas are rough
     enough to defeat my roll in the first place, I'm going to have 
     a hard time staying up while I pump out the boat.  With the
     paddle float, however, I can stick the paddle shaft under my arm,
     lean into the outrigger for stability, and pump out the boat.  Its 
     stable, easy, and works all the time -- even in really nastey 
     rough water.  
     
     --Tim

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