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 >*************************************************************************** >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/ >*************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Dec 08 1999 - 10:23:03 PST
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