Re: [Paddlewise] First Overnight; Paddling Advice Please

Sue:

The video "Essential Boat control" is excellent.  The first go-round with it
will have your head spinning out of contol trying to deal with so much
information.  The "coolest" video I've seen on WW kayaking.

Robert
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>From: Su Penn <supenn_at_voyager.net>
>To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
>Subject: [Paddlewise] First Overnight; Paddling Advice Please
>Date: Sun, Jun 13, 1999, 19:08
>

>Hello folks! I am just back from my first overnight kayaking trip. I am so
>just back that I am not showered and none of my stuff is either hanging to
>dry or in the washer, which shows how eager I am to e-mail. The punchline
>of the weekend is that we had a wonderful time, and plan to have an even
>better time next trip, when we will have tent poles as well as a tent. Did
>you know you can use half your paddle as a tent pole to hold up a
>two-person dome tent (some very intricate cordage to the local trees did
>the rest of the work)? I pass this info along as it may be potentially
>useful to you at some point.
>
>Here's the advice I want: I am a _way_ beginner paddler, and we were on a
>Class 1 river yesterday and today. The only problem I encountered was
>"spinning out" on turns. The current was pretty swift (by my standards) and
>I found early on that, as I was going around bends, the current would push
>my stern so that the boat would swing and I would end up sidewise to the
>river. I figured out eventually that if I anticipated this happening and
>used my paddle as a rudder to counter the force of the current on my stern,
>I did better, and would swing through the turn and end up facing downstream
>(though if I waited too long, and the boat was already beginning to spin
>out before I ruddered, there was too much braking action and I lost
>momentum). I feel that I figured out a workable solution that saved me a
>lot of frustration over the two days' trip, but I'd love to hear from more
>experienced paddlers how you anticpate and deal with this phenomenon, if
>you don't mind taking a few minutes to enlighten a relative beginner.
>
>We plan to do another overnight on the same river in July, and will have
>some friends with us who are even more beginning than I am; I would love to
>have some tips to pass on to them.
>
>Su Penn
>
>p.s. This was in Michigan, where that canoeist has just been conviected
>(yes, convicted, as of, I think, yesterday. But not sentenced yet) of
>criminal profanity in front of children. I'm sorry to say I am guilty under
>the same law; taking out at a boat launch at the end of the trip, I slipped
>on the slimy sloped bottom and uttered a four-letter word in the presence
>of three boys about ten years old who were hunting crawdads nearby. They
>forgave me when I apologized, but I wonder if that would have been a
>mitigating circumstance at my trial?
>
>
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