> Try putting your sprayskirt on under water. Re-enter and roll up, catch > your breath, relax, and roll back over then slip it on and roll back > up. It really isn't that hard if you can relax and have confidence in > being able to easily roll back up. To make this really effective > however, you would do best to have a footfpump or an electric pump. I had the same concern about the sprayskirt in a discussion a few weeks ago and this suggestion came up back then. The next session I had at the pool, I gave it a try both with and without gloves... This is _no_ simple procedure under controlled conditions without neoprene gloves. With gloves, it was nearly impossible. I can only imagine that waves and cloudy water would make it more difficult. Perhaps with a lot of practice, it might work for you... for me, it's not something I intend to incorporate into my bag of "save my tail" techniques unless someone can share the secret in getting the spray skirt back on before I require air. Perhaps I need to look into that breathing tube technique to go along with this technique. Greg *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 22 1999 - 19:42:38 PST
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