Just remember, Mike, a bad day on the water is better than a good day at work. Of course, if you work on the water...I don't know how that works > I attend Jack Elliot's Alternative Rolling clinic out of curiousity. He advertised a roll > that anyone could learn. It turns out to be a roll from a 1987 (or so) issue of Sea > Kayaker. It requires an unfeathered paddle. Once upside down, you take one end > of the paddle and stick the end of the blade in the space between the deck and cockpit > coaming on the side of the kayak and let the paddle float on the surface. You then grab > the shaft and pull on it. Voila! you're up. I'm having trouble visualizing this. Is the blade in the middle of a deck-skirt-coaming sandwich? When I do a gedanken pull on the paddle, I don't come up; either the blade tip cracks off or the coaming breaks. What am I doing wrong? Aside from sitting at my desk? -- Steve *************************************************************************** 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 Tue May 15 2001 - 11:53:32 PDT
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