Re: [Paddlewise] self rescue techniques

At 07:36 AM 3/8/00 PST, Allison Corning wrote:

>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?

Sorry about the blip earlier, I was futzing with a keyboard that quit
working and managed to send a reply that I couldn't type.

I keep a sling permanently attached to my boat -- it's about 3/16" rope,
fixed in a yoke to the seat attachment bolts, and runs down to a loop with
a short length of PVC piping. It can be deployed in a matter of seconds. I
probably would be unable to do a paddlefloat re-entry without it.

-- Wes
Who is proof that there are fat kayakers that smoke (although a lot less
than I used to.)
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