As long as we're on the topic of rescues, here are some tips that may make your rescues more efficient. The first part of the T rescue involves grabbing the bow of the boat and bring the kayak across your lap in preparation for emptying out the water. Consider righting the kayak prior to lifting it onto your cockpit. Once the bow of the kayak is situated over you cockpit you flip the boat over and raise it to empty the water. Once the boats are side by side - bow-to-stern, and the rescuee is ready to climb in two options become available. First, they can climb onto the back deck of their boat, grabbing hold of your boat and manuervering into their boat. The other option is for the rescuee to climb over your boat and onto their back deck. Some of us find this second technique a little easier for some people. sid *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 08 2000 - 09:39:40 PST
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