[Paddlewise] paddle float self rescue

Sid Stone is right - the paddle float self-rescue takes more time than a 
well-executed "T rescue" or whatever it's called in your locale. I very 
much prefer the re-entry and roll. However - there are still people who 
paddle alone, and there are people whose paddling partners aren't up to a 
competent assisted rescue. Maybe that shouldn't be true, but it is true. 
Some of those solo paddlers can't roll, or can't roll well enough to do the 
re-entry and roll. They often *can* get back into their boat and button up 
the spray skirt and thus stay warmer than they'd be in the water.

It would be great if such folks had spray skirts with zippered closures or 
other arrangements (like a sealed gasket just in front of the body tube) 
which could be opened easily and admit a hand pump. But then maybe they all 
should have foot pumps, or electric pumps.......Yeegads - the options are 
endless.

Point is - Sid is right, but the "outrigger" rescue does have a place.

Bill Hansen

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