At 11:22 PM 4/5/2002 -0500, KiAyker_at_aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/5/2002 10:26:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, >kolsen_at_imaginelan.com writes: > > > Nearly all SOTs are easy to get back on. The challenges are the same as > > getting up onto the deck of a sea kayak. > > This seems to be a common misconception. While climbing back onto a SOT >(or the deck of a sea kayak) may be easy for those of us who are relatively >fit and athletic, there are those folks out there who have some, if not a >great deal of difficulty accomplishing this. If you throw in a little fatigue >and possibly some hypothermia, then the task becomes even harder still. You are quite correct. I thought of including that when I wrote up the original but mistakenly left it as the implied part of "the challenges are the same". Fatigue, fitness, technique, stuff on the front of your pfd, are all going to play a factor. Getting back onto a sit on top is as difficult as getting on the deck of sea kayak, but it's also not any easier than getting on the deck of a sea kayak. As usual every person and boat is different, practice before you need to do it for real. Kirk *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Apr 08 2002 - 07:22:25 PDT
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