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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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. Doesn't this then involve lifting a kayak full of water? I prefer to keep the big hole pointed down do the water runs out as I lift. I've seen someone try to pick up the bow of a swamped, right-side-up kayak, and it wasn't pretty. Also, it's really not necessary to bring the kayak very far across your lap if it has a stern bulkhead. Steve *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: <Sidney_Stone_at_amsinc.com> > righting the kayak prior to lifting it onto your cockpit. Once the bow of the ........ This is correct, as the kayak will slice better this way, but, regardless of which way you preffer, remember when lifting the kayak that the friction produced by a heavy flooded kayak is so strong that it can damage your sprayskirt in the process. Use one hand down the flooded kayak when pulling up and emptying it so you can prevent it to scratch your sprayskirt. Sometimes solving one problems leads us into another ! Best regards ! U.K.T. - UNION DE KAYAKISTAS DE TRAVESIA Fernando López Arbarello uktkayak_at_uol.com.ar *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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