Ok, here's my stupid question for the week: This was demonstrated to us in our beginner class in Monterey Bay, mostly as an example of "you don't want to have to rely on this". The other rescues we practiced were the assisted-T and paddle-float. In both of those rescues the approach to the cockpit was the same - face down on the rear deck, facing the stern, work one leg into the cockpit and then rotate all the way in, staying low. The trickiest part about the cowboy rescue (they called it "scramble") was raising the CG while sitting up to slide your butt into the cockpit and/or work your legs in. My question was/is: Why not perform that rescue from the BOW, sliding all the way beyond the cockpit to a position just to the rear of it, then do a normal insert/rotate cockpit entry? The instructor didn't have an answer other than he'd never heard of that and would have to try it out. Did I just invent something? KeS *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 06 2000 - 23:18:31 PDT
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