On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 Sidney_Stone_at_amsinc.com wrote: > 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. An improvement on the T rescue, an improvement I first read about on paddlewise, is to grab the bow of the boat to be emptied, tip the swamped boat on it's side and then tip over, away from the swamped boat, pulling the swamped boat up onto your boat as you tip. Since you are holding the bow you only tip over to horizontal, turn the now empty swamped boat upright, and right your boat, sliding the empty boat back into the water. Works great, it takes me longer to line the boats up than to empty the swamped one. One caveat is the swamped boat needs stern flotation, the closer the flotation is to the back of the cockpit the less water there is in the boat after it is righted. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:12:17 PST
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