[Paddlewise] Rules of The Road

I did a series of articles in my Folding Kayaker newsletter a few years
ago regarding Dealing With Traffic. I did so on the assumption that many
folding kayakers live in cities and therefore may likely be paddling in
more traffic-riddled waters.

You might want to look at them on a website a friend created but has
pretty much laid dormant for quite a while:

http://www.seakayaker.com/nav-hd.htm

The images have nothing to do with the text and were just dropped in by
him.

I suggest you look particularly at the one regarding what I called the
10 Commandments of Dealing With Traffic as it is a wrap-up of ideas
expressed in earlier articles:

http://www.seakayaker.com/10-rules.htm

The key points really are what has been referred to as the Rule of Gross
Tonnage mentioned by Matt Broze and others, i.e. if it is bigger than
you, get out of its way and since even a row boat is bigger...you get
the drift.

Also to boil it down to easy terms to remember:

a) do absolutely everything you can to be seen

b) assume absolutely that you cannot be seen at all

ralph diaz
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