[Paddlewise] sea sock

I tried a sea sock for the first time in a rental boat, and didn't like the
feel of it at all.  It made my knees slippery and kept getting rumpled when
I entered.  I tested it with a roll near the beach and came up with no
problem.  Later, I thought I would try a roll in some tidal rapids but
failed.  I tried twice more before wet exiting.  I haven't missed an on side
roll in quite a while and blame the miss mainly on the sea sock.  Maybe the
new rental boat played a part.

The assisted re-entry went fine.  But once in the boat water was in
different parts of the bunched up sea sock and everything seemed out of
order.  I paddled a short distance to a beach and tried to remove the water
by lifting the sea sock.  No go.  There was, for some reason, suction
holding the sea sock in the boat.  I turned the boat over to empty it but
the sea sock seemed to prevent a total emptying I would have achieved
without it.

The sea sock seemed a big awkward pain and not worth the bother.  Maybe I
need more practice with it.  Or is it just another gimmicky complication?

Jerry

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