A question for PaddleWisers. I have a good friend (retired firefighter) who has had two hip replacements. He is intrigued by kayaking but can't get more than an 80 degree angle at the hip, which makes sitting in a regular kayak pretty difficult. Does anyone have any suggestions on how he could kayak in anything but perhaps a Tribalance or one of the E Z Rider outiggers? My thought is that he needs to build up the seat high enough to allow an 80 deg. hip angle and this would put the center of gravity high enough to make it pretty hard with anything that isn't outriggered. I figure he'd have to sit up almost as high as the rear deck on most regular kayaks to allow his feet to be 10 degrees down from the hips. Anone with experience with this kind of disability? Thanks for any suggestions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ©2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Mon May 29 2000 - 21:02:42 PDT
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