At 08:06 AM 11/23/99 -0800, Philip Torrens wrote: >>From: ralph diaz <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com> >> >As for it being just a party trick. I do think rolling a double is propably >limited for sea kayaking, but I was a safety diver for the international >white water events in Ontario about a decade ago. The teams in the double >w.w. kayaks and double C-2s could and did roll "for real" if they were >knocked over during a run. I went to the MooseFest river festival this year and heard that there were a couple of guys that ran the race on the bottom Moose with it's 5 class V drops (the first is over 48' Fowlersville Falls) in a Topo Duo. The Topo Duo is a 12' long, 24" wide tandem whitewater boat. Apparently, going into the last drop (a really nasty series of three drops at 5', 10', and 15') their time would have been good enough for second place but they flipped. I heard that they rolled twice but got flipped in a hole a third time and exited. That added nine minutes to their time and they ended up in last place. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 23 1999 - 08:56:37 PST
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