[Paddlewise] Fw: paddlefloat/outrigger rescue

  ----- Original Message ----- 


  From: Matt Broze 


  "Now lets say you exited through small surf that


  morning and had to tighten the shock cord down so tight that you needed


  someone else's help to get it on that plastic kayak's coaming before you


  left the beach. And from recent experience you knew if you didn't have it on

  that tight it would pop off with the first wave that washed over the deck."






  Jan's response:


  If this was my experience, I would say that I had the wrong sprayskirt for
the kayak that I was in. 





  Greg Meyer from Great Expeditions and California Canoe & Kayak has figured
out how to put a piece of tubing on the shock cord in front of the knot to
make a spacer so that the rand of the sprayskirt can fit down into the groove
of the cockpit coaming better. He uses a wider variety of kayaks than we do
(singles & doubles) so he needs the skirts that are adjustable. We have pretty
good luck with the Snapdragon "sea tour" skirts for our plastic boats and we
are experimenting with some of the new Harmony skirts this year. 





  Roger had a little trouble with skirt failure in some enormous waves when he
was out playing, until he got the skirt with the implosion bar, but he can
still put the implosion bar skirt on by himself. 





  If you need help getting your sprayskirt on while you are still on the
beach, if you come out of your boat, you are probably going to need help with
it on the water, no matter what rescue you accomplish.





  Best wishes,


  Jan of


  Roger Schumann & Jan Shriner


  ESKAPE Sea Kayaking


  (831) 427-2297.  Web Page: http://www.eskapekayak.com


  authors of Guide to Sea Kayaking Central and Northern California 





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