At 10:21 PM 9/6/00 -0700, Matt Broze wrote: >Perhaps this may have been the time to take off that PFD (we all wear) and >try to fasten it securely to your paddle blade to serve as an emergency >paddle float. For me this is a last resort if no other flotation device is (much snipped) This actually opens the door to a question that's come up around the campfire once or twice, and maybe it's worth asking: Why doesn't someone come up with a paddle float with a CO2 cartidge inflater, like on an inflatable PFD? It seems to me that in cold water the quicker that you can get rigged for the paddle float rescue, the better off you are, no matter what the immersion protection. If you could just bag the thing over the end of the paddle and yank the ripcord, it would be a savings of perhaps several minutes over inflating and rigging. -- Wes *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Sep 07 2000 - 07:58:23 PDT
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