RE: [Paddlewise] Everglades Paddling Horror Story

From: Jerry Hawkins <jhawkins_at_cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:21:07 -0800
Your ice chest, if you carry one, is about the best bailer you can get.  A little 4 quart cooler empties your body weight in ~25 dips.  I've never done this in my own boat but could tell you a story about being in my dad's motorboat when my stepbrother had the drain plugs in his pocket ... Nobody drowned, no major damage done, and a little laugh 30 years later.

jerry.


At 09:28 AM 12/08/1999 -0600, Chuck Holst wrote:
>>>
>Hell of a story.  What is the layout there?  How could they get into a
>situation
>where they could not get turned around toward shore?
>>>
>
>And why didn't they even have a good bailer? I always carry a bleach jug
>bailer in my canoe, even though I have rarely needed it.
>
>Chuck Holst
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