I have been lurking for a while after buying a Folbot and am enjoying the list. It has been about 50 years since I was last in a kayak! I have been reading a lot and have some suggestions for you all to pick holes in before I try them out and drown myself. On capsizing: 1. grab paddle and painter 2. secure paddle under bungee or strap behind seat 3. take an orange garbage bag from pfd, inflate by waving in wind 4. allow a few litres of water to enter bag (for ballast) and tie bag's neck around paddle 5. slide aboard and lean on bag side of boat for stability while bailing or pumping Incidentally (and I don't have shares in orange garbage bags!), a large one would be helpful to stave off heat loss if you climbed in it and kept another to attract attention, while the easy inflation by waving and then tying off with an elastic band might make for quick therefore readily used extra flotation in bow and stern. I have inflatable buoyancy bags but get pop-eyed blowing them up! What have I overlooked? None of this is new but I haven't seen all of these ideas put together. On another thread - a bag tied on a paddle should make the boat stable enough for emergency poop/pee without the need for rafting up with embarrassed singers of the opposite sex! I look forward to your critique and flames if called for. I'm fireproof. -- Chimo_____________________________________ ) ( John Bartlett capricornis anciensis 0 0 __________________________________________ " {~} If you live in Victoria and want to swap houses anywhere in the world, see: http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~bartlett/swappage1.htm If you live elswhere in the world and might want to swap with me, see: http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~bartlett/houseswap.htm *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 08:03:11 PDT
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