Re: [Paddlewise] self rescue techniques

At 07:36 AM 3/8/00 PST, Allison Corning wrote:
>This kind of jumps onto the self rescue thread that just popped up...
>
>I was watching a video of rescue techniques the other day and saw mostly the 
>usual stuff, paddlefloats, t rescues etc. and then the hosts did a 
>modification on their paddle float rescue where they attached nylon webbing 
>to the paddle shaft and made a stirrup-the person then stepped into the 
>stirrup and was given a "boost" back into the kayak. I'm looking at this 
>tape and thinking to myself "you've got to be kidding me". I've been 
>religeously practicing my self rescues and am always looking for good 
>alternate ways, but even the hosts took quite a while to arrange the 
>stirrups just right-I get annoyed enough at the time it takes to inflate the 
>paddlefloat, I can't imagine that taking the time to attach stirrup would be 
>at all helpful. Has anyone ever actually done this?
>
>Allison, Who just discovered a 15 foot square patch of open water on the 
>lake and is rooting for the melt to continue...
>
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