RE: [Paddlewise] A couple questions

From: <Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:27:56 -0400
> I wear an old pair of trainers/running shoes to get over this problem

One of the things that I was taught early on was not to wear shoes with
laces.  Apparently, in a capsize, the laces can loop around the foot
pegs and entrap you in the boat.  I "think" (my recollection is vague)
that this may have actually happened to a paddler a couple of winters
ago on the Potomac River.

Anyway.... I'm no expert, but food for thought.

Rick 
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