Joe Pylka wrote: > > >In the capsized coneist thread....what's a "strainer"??? > >Rick (.....rookie from Virginia) > >*************************************************************************** > A strainer is an obstruction in a stream that lets water through, > but not you. Say, something like a fallen tree with its branches in the > water or a drifted log pinned between rocks. > Even a moderate current can hold you against it, and drowning is a > real possibility. Best to paddle around them i.e. avoid them like the > plague. > > Joe P. The definition can also apply to piers in a harbor or a bay or a large river like the Hudson. A current can pin you pretty hopelessly to a pier. If you don't push off correctly, i.e. tilting your cockpit into the direction of the pier, and instead tilt the cockpit toward the current, the current will catch your deck and flip you like a pancake. It has happened to me. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Oct 09 2000 - 09:33:18 PDT
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