Jack Fu writes: > I am an experienced ww river kayaker and sea kayaker. > > Anyone who does not wear a PFD in river ww is damned stupid. > > <snip> Just to clarify - I wasn't contemplating *not* wearing a pfd in river ww. The anecdote was to illustrate one possible case where it _might_ be useful to loose the pfd, but certainly not a case of going sans pfd. I've also thought over the surf issue and decided, that while in my kayak I'd much prefer to have it on. I've seen enough kayak/kayak and kayak/surfboard collisions to be assured that the extra padding will come in handy 8) I think the pfd/swimmer issue doesn't take into account possible injury (esp in surf &/or rock gardens). If I've been thrashed around and am feeling out of sorts, for whatever value of 'out of', I'd *really* like to have the pfd on to assist in my flotation. So far, in all the questionable pfd cases (needing to swim, etc) it doesn't strike me that there is a compelling reason *not* to wear your pfd in the first place. If you later get into a situation where loosing the pfd may help, then you can burn that flotation when you get to it 8) I think this just leaves flatwater. How many people paddle flatwater w/o a pfd or with a pfd 'on deck'? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- snark_at_tulgey.org aka Glen Acord http://www.tulgey.org/~snark if ($snark eq "boojum") {vanish("softly","suddenly")} *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 20 2000 - 23:33:43 PDT
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