Re: [Paddlewise] Offside roll: how useful?

From: Karl Coplan <kcoplan_at_Genesis.law.pace.edu>
Date: Wed Jun 23 11:29:38 1999
Thanks for the direct reply.  As a sea kayaker, I dont expect to need 
a roll while up against a rock, cliff, boat, dock, etc.  I realize 
that an offside roll may be important to a ww kayaker, but am not 
convinced for sea kayaking.

Maybe it would make a difference in high winds . . . but you've got 
to assume that a weaker offside roll will work with the wind after 
your stronger onside roll has failed.  Only story I am familiar with 
is the one in Sea Kayakers Deep Trouble where the offside roll failed 
in high winds right after the onside roll failed (you know, the guy 
who was out in SF bay in 50 knot winds . . .)

--Karl


Professor Karl S. Coplan
Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc.
78 North Broadway
White Plains, N.Y.  10603
kcoplan_at_genesis.law.pace.edu
(914) 422-4343
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