[Paddlewise] Solo surf launching

I tried a bit of solo surf launch and reentry practice a couple weeks 
ago, and did ok, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on a 
more graceful way of scooching a kayak off the beach and into 
enough water to actually float.  Our beaches have a very gradual 
sloap out near shore.   It just seemed to *look* highly ungraceful.
Worked fine I suppose, but I was just dreading someone walking 
up behind me and asking, "whatcha doin?"  I tried entering the 
kayak in enough water to float, but all that caused was a cockpit 
full of wave water as the wave got to me before I could get my 
spray skirt all the way on, not to mention being pushed back right 
to where I would have started with the bottom of the boat resting on 
the sand...    grrrrrrrrrr.


Richard Walker
Houston, TX
http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html
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