JSpinner_at_aol.com wrote: > > That said, another note to practicing: I actually do practice more > because I have a strength/weight problem. I can rescue myself with my > equipment but my most regular paddling partners have real problems helping me > back into a dry boat. That means inventing ways each of them can help me and > practicing those with them. The assisted rescue I find the easiest for me is > the between the boats and hoisting myself with my legs rather than attempting > to pull myself up with my arms from the outside. Have you tried a stirrup? Tie a 12' (more or less) piece of nylon into a loop. While a partner stabilizes your boat, toss the loop around your coaming and boost yourself up with your foot in the loop. You can also wrap it various ways around paddles held across the two boats. Don't use floating line. > Woody did that one with me this past weekend and he found a way to give > me a really stable platform to come up onto. Now, I need to get him to teach > others how to do that for me. He described it to me but I'm not sure I quite > got the, "Hold the bow of the boat in your arm pit." I was so thrilled that I > could just slide back into the boat that I didn't get him to actually SHOW me > what he did differently than in the past. The pit-to-pit (armpit to cockpit, except it's really pit to deck) rescue. It's no more complicated than he told you, except that you don't want to be very far forward. You need a confident partner, because he really has to commit all his upper body weight to your boat. Not that he's in any danger; it's almost impossible to flip from this position, even in waves. Steve *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Aug 30 2000 - 06:23:31 PDT
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