Re: [Paddlewise] securing gear in kayak && bulkheads?

Neat trick, I'll have to try it. Could call it the rebound method. Thanks
Matt Broze
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From: HTERVORT_at_aol.com <HTERVORT_at_aol.com>
To: mkayaks_at_oz.net <mkayaks_at_oz.net>; PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
<PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>; jeedwar_at_ci.long-bch.ca.us
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Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] securing gear in kayak && bulkheads?


>In a message dated 6/24/99 1:27:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mkayaks_at_oz.net
>writes:
>
><< Could someone who has successfully done a T-rescue with a fully loaded
sea
> kayak please advise me just how it is accomplished. I have been unable to
> lift the bow out of the water at all from a kayak. Does the victim push
the
> stern down? Do two people lift the bow between them?
> Matt Broze
>  >>
>Sure, Matt -- I'll try,
>
>Although I tell my students that it's better to do a reenter and pump
>scenario with loaded boats, I *have* done tees with moderately loaded boats
>in moderate conditions when time was of the essence.
>
>Having the swimmer push down on the stern helps, but it does put them in
>danger of getting sliced and diced on ruddered boats, or of becoming
>disconnected from the raft if the boat doesn't have perimeter lines.
Having
>a taller (and very poised) swimmer reach over your deck just forward of the
>cockpit can get the job done also.  I would *not* recommend  having the
>swimmer try to help on the side of the swimmer's boat - more chance of them
>capsizing the rescuer and/or getting the boat dropped on their heads.
>Overall, I think the safest way is to raft, reenter and pump.
>
>By-the-way, one of my fellow instructors - Jeff Edwards, taught me a sweet
>trick which makes lifting the bow easier.  I had always just leaned away
from
>the tee'd boat and lifted, with one or two hands, while twisting just a bit
>to burp the cockpit.  He leans heavily on the keel of the boat with his
>near-side hand, reaches down and grabs the bow with his opposite hand, then
>bounces downward onto the boat before throwing his head and shoulders away
>from the boat.  The weight shift submerges the bow further and its buoyancy
>makes it literally jump up into your lap.  I didn't believe what I'd seen
him
>do until I tried it myself.  In fact, the first time I tried it, I gave it
>all I had and almost capsized myself away from the boat -- the bow came up
>that easily.  I haven't tried it with a loaded or extremely flooded kayak
yet.
>
>Now, were you just fishing, or what?8^)
>
>Harold
>

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