Dave, I've been in that situation a couple of times. With strong wind and high waves an open canoe must be paddled in line with the wind and waves. Trying to turn will either get you broached and swamped or have a wave fill the boat either way you swamp. I have also been in an open canoe with an electric trolling motor when the motor was less efficient at moving the canoe than a paddle. Both times were on MN lakes where I did not feel that my life was in danger, but the paddling was very interesting for a while. While I have not doubt that an open canoe that could handle the conditions described in the article could be designed or equipted with flotation and a spray cover to reduce the risk of swamping, I have never been in one. Personally and for the future I expect I will stay with a kayak if I'm tempted to paddle where conditions such as described are possible. Dana > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 12:00 PM > To: paddlewise-digest_at_lists.intelenet.net Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 23:34:10 -0800 From: Dave Kruger <dkruger_at_pacifier.com> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Everglades Paddling Horror Story 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? *************************************************************************** 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 - 11:06:43 PST
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