On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Calder wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I was shown an assisted rescue by a chap called > Donald Thompson, which I hadn't seen or heard of before. I don't know > whether anyone other than Donald has developed this rescue, but I was very > impressed and consider this technique to be the fastest method I've tried > for emptying a wet exit victim's boat in deep water. This is somewhat similar to what some paddlers I know call the "Hand of God" rescue -- I suppose it got the name, because to the rescuee, it feels like something reached out of the sky and popped them upright. The way the H-o-G rescue works is that paddler A falls over and misses his/her roll. Paddler B approaches the A's boat -- with A still in it and upside down and comes up parallel to it. B reaches over the upside-down hull of A's boat and grabs the cockpit rim, then pulls it up, flipping B back upright. For additional leverage, B can flip towards A's boat (being careful not to smack their head into A's hull) which will allow them to use their entire body weight to hoist A up. B then lets go of A's boat and rolls up. I've seen this done, but it only works well if B weighs a lot more than A. And manages to grab the cockpit rim without popping the sprayskirt off. ;-) ---Rsk Rich Kulawiec rsk_at_gsp.org *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 04:47:06 PDT
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