Steve Posti wrote [edited]: > > Am I over looking anything? I always carry a throw bag. Figured I would never need it myself, but might need it to rescue someone else sometime. Well last winter in Florida I paddled up to my destination, a pier about 4' above the water line. I figured I might tip my boat getting out (a 13'8" Old Town Loon 138) so I pulled everything out of my boat and placed it on the pier, including my paddle. I reached up to the pier with my hands and stuck my fingers in some green slime in a cement seam. Yuck! I put my hands in the water and wiggled my fingers to clean off the slime. When I reached back up for the pier, it was out of reach. The current was carrying me out into the river. I tried paddling to shore with my hands. That didn't work. And I was moving farther out. There were warning signs about alligators in that area so I certainly did not want to go in the water. I spied my float bag attached to my seat frame, the only thing I did not take out. I quicky threw the line ashore and snagged it in a piece of splintered wo! od on the pier and pulled myself back in. It also comes in handy as a line to tie your boat up when you go ashore. Bob Matter Hammond, IN ----------- "Savage fires, the worst ever, raged unchecked across drought-ridden US landscapes last summer, West Nile fever broke out in Boston. The ice cap was found full of water and holes, polar bears started to die and persistent floods swept across Britain. Yet on neither side of the Atlantic did green issues register more than a small blip on political screens." --Polly Toynbee, The Guardian *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 29 2000 - 02:05:10 PST
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