At 08:49 AM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Would anyone >who has broken a paddle doing a paddlefloat rescue please let us know just >what you were doing at the point the paddle broke matt, i haven't broken one, but i've bent a crappy aluminum one. (i don't practice with our good ones. please don't tell me i should. we carry two or three take-apart spares whenever we go out.) what i was doing at the time, other than a normal re-entry, was simply weighing 250+ pounds. wes can attest to this and does so on his kayak page. bigger people need different solutions at times. ;-) kcd ps my husband, who weighs 250+ as well, didn't bend the paddle. go figure. maybe it's because i'm 5'4" and he's 5'10"? *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Mar 06 2002 - 10:54:15 PST
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