RE: [Paddlewise] Incapacitated partner

From: Sisler, Clyde <Clyde.Sisler_at_wang.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 15:31:27 -0400
> >If I can't get them back in their boat, I think I'd try to rig a
> harness
> >around my waist and through each shoulder strap of their PFD and tow
> >them to shore or an island where normal first aid, etc. could be
> done.
> 
> 	I've got images of the cowboy riding into town with the "dead
> guy" draped
> 
	Yup!  Seems like an apt image.  Probably wouldn't hang down
quite so far tho :-).

> over the rear of the horse. . . I wonder about getting the person over
> the
> front deck or your own boat, towing the second boat. . . 
> 
	Ok, assuming you're stable enough, how are you going to get an
unconscious bod up on the fore deck?  That's all dead weight (no pun
intended).  Maybe, instead of trying to hoist them up head first, try to
get their feet/legs accross the deck as far as possbile (as fast as
possible) then maybe lean the 'yak as far as you can in the opposite
direction to kind of work the butt up on the deck, then muscle the torso
and head up. 

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