Re: [Paddlewise] Spray skirts-safety training and complacency

>
> First event was during rolling exercises when I noticed halfway through
one
> exercise that I'ld forgotten to ensure the spray skirt tag was free - of
> course I freed it up and out of curiosity tested the back up method I'ld
> been taught, of bunching the skirt with a knee, grabbing the bunched
fabric
> and pulling the spray skirt off. I've seen this work but this time it
> didn't. What would I have done under water - fallen out?

I've been shown that a sprayskirt can be released in an emergency by
grabbing its edge at the middle of the side of the cockpit coaming where it
can be grabbed more easily than at the front if the pull loop is tucked
under.
Larry Koenig
Baton Rouge, LA

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