context: sea kayaking After a brief illustration by Ken Fink at one point during a class I finally realized why they say 3 kayakers are a lot better than 2. The message I received was that it is nearly impossible for a single person to bring in a person who cannot get back into their boat and be stable enough to be towed. End of sentence. Apparently it is an instructors' nightmare, they talk about around the campfire -- what to do if you're out alone and something happens to a client, and there are just the two of you. With a second person you can most likely get someone back in their boat, and then that person can stabilize them and you can tow the pair. As you see, more and more people make this a lot easier. But it didn't sound very easy to me in any case. Especially in cold water where you can't be leaving someone in the water for long. jennifer *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jun 15 1998 - 12:53:22 PDT
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