Re: [Paddlewise] Paddlefloat Reentry: Back or Front?

Geo. Bergeron wrote:
> 
> OK then, some clarification. . .
> 
> At 03:18 AM 6/7/98 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote:
> 
> >Ben's method involves attacking the boat-outrigger system from the REAR
> >DECK side of the outrigger, which allows looping an ankle over the shaft
> >to assist in getting onto the deck.
> 
>         I'm assuming working off the port/left side of the boat: Are we
> hooking the ankle of the RIGHT foot over the paddle??? and pulling RIGHT
> side of the body on the up on the rear deck?

NO.  If working off the port side, attacking the outrigger from the rear
deck side of the outrigger places your LEFT ankle in a natural position
to loop over the paddleshaft, near the outrigger blade.  And, no, I
would not say you pull your right or left side of your body onto the
rear deck -- when I did it, my chest was pretty much flat onto the
deck.  I held the paddleshaft and the cockpit coaming with my left hand
and gripped the far side of the rear deck with my right hand and
mantelshelfed my upper torso onto the rear deck.  To grab the coaming
and the opposite side of the rear deck this way, you have to be pretty
flat onto the deck.

> >This seemed easier.  Then, he rotates his body [CLOCKWISE] around a 
> >***vertical*** axis [pretty much through the butt] to move both legs, in turn,
> >across the outrigger and down into the cockpit (simultaneously his upper
> >body moves over to the centerline of the rear deck).
> 
>         RIGHT leg then LEFT leg into the boat? Facing more or less forward?

NO.  Left leg first, then move right leg into the "ankle on the paddle"
position as you rotate clockwise.  The left leg would be entering the
cockpit more or less at the same time as the right leg moves onto the
paddle shaft.  This is far easier to do than it is to describe.

> This means moving the "ankle hook" from the LEFT foot to the RIGHT foot. . .
> (gets you up out of the water and at deck level)

Well, the bod is pretty much entirely out of the water throughout.

> >Rotation of the torso around a (more or less) horizontal axis then 
> >produces an upright position. (Ben's method)
> 
>         Quarter turn counter-clockwise into the cockpit?

More like a third of a turn, from initial vault onto the rear deck to
full-on seg insertion into the cockpit.
 
>         I'm visualizing coming at the re-entry facing the cockpit and
> putting legs in the cockpit facing forward while on one's (right) side. Then
> a quarter turn counter-clockwise from leaning on the right side to sitting
> upright. Brace against out-rigger paddle with left hand. Grip coaming and
> paddle with right hand.
>         This would allow seeing the feet and cockpit. . . The quarter turn
> is more like the paddle braced entry from dock or shore.  Is this what
> you're suggesting?

Re: previous two paragraphs:  Not exactly.  You could lean onto your
right side a little, I guess, in order to see where you are putting your
feet, but this method does NOT avoid the snagging problem refered to
below.

>         I like this idea a lot. My "other" method includes a pull across the
> cockpit and rear deck with the face of the PFD. . . dragging/snagging
> everything in the front pockets. Then drifting blind-butt-to-the-bow while
> using the Braille method to find the cockpit with one, then both legs.
[snip]

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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