Re: [Paddlewise] "mud stroke"

Sisler, Clyde wrote:
> 
  I think I'll just tie my sneakers on real tight or wait for the tide
to come in.  How long can that take?


It can take a while....
Recent personal experience leads me to believe that it can take too
long.  On a recent "expedition" to Chassahowitzka NWR on the west coast
of Florida I made a serious error and paddled on the wrong side of an
island on the way to the Gulf.  My friends were in the channel and I was
stuck fast on a bottomless mud flat.  My calculations were that I had
about 4 hours before I would float free.  I developed a new stoke that
my friends dubbed the "mud two step".  I was able to boost myself up to
straddle the rear deck of my Arluk and attempt to stand.  I was able to
slide my boat foward about a foot for each step.  It took me about 20
minutes but I made it to the channel.  I dont ever want to do that
again.

Before that "lesson" I thought I only had to worry about large waves,
fog, boaters, if my roll is bomb proof, and green head flies now I worry
about low tide.


-- 

    Hal 

    Wilton, NH

    Power your boat with carbohydrates,
    not hydrocarbons.
         
          http://www.jlc.net/~hlevin
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