Well, since Paul's post and my query I have not seen one truely negative post regarding solo paddling. Sounds like there is agreement that if you truely prepare, honestly asscess your skills and reherse you can give yourself as good or better odds than if you were in a group. Especially if you are in a group of unknowns. The day after Pauls post, believe it or not, I took a long look at my boat and the equipment. I go out every evening, solo, but skipped one. I stripped the boat and resecured everything. Gave better thought to some things, remembered where things were, read labels on flares etc. It was a pretty good exercise. Actually, I took the boat out later with the intent of practicing rolls and wet exit stuff with the gear in the new configuration but the lions-main jellyfish were everywhere! Quick question... I usually keep a diving knife strapped to my leg. It is in a hard sheath and there is very little chance it can hurt me if I get curled somehow. The bad thing is you can't get to it without taking the skirt off. What is good stuff that has a hard sheath that can attach to a PFD? Fixed blade only, nobody has time to fiddle with a folding knife. TM *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jul 09 1998 - 07:15:20 PDT
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