Re: [Paddlewise] Pumping Out/Paddlefloat rescues Mexican Rescue

At 08:03 a.m. 29/07/2003 +1000, Peter Treby wrote:
>"Just place the free blade under the cockpit thigh brace and hold it with
>your leg, while pumping."
>Rafael, doesn't this mean that the spray skirt is not attached? If so, there
>is a risk of taking a wave on board and flooding again as you pump. So
>perhaps this jam-under-the-thigh-brace outrigger is useful to get rid of a
>bit of water quickly, while stabilised with the outrigger, then paddle away
>and finish the job with a foot pump. I will try it next opportunity.

Now that you mention it and Matt Broze mentioned it as well, I don´t see any difficulty in having the blade-under-the-thigh-brace outrigger in place with the sprayskirt on top. The reason being that the paddle shaft leaves on the mid cockpit to your right side and therefore the spray skirt may be pretty tight in front, left side and back side , and only leave a small space on the right side ( to mention one) where you can also slide the hand pump.

Therefore, after the reentry and roll, you place the outrigger with the blade under the thigh brace, then place the sprayskirt, then pump out, then get the outrigger out and close the remaining piece of sprayskirt, remove the paddlefloat and continue paddling.

For this reason I am doing the following:

1.- Tomorrow I´ll go to the lake with a friend and cameras and video and I´ll film the rescue procedure. I´ll load it on my webshots and give the  reference to paddlewisers so that they can see the details of this rescue technique. Of course it will not be the same  on big waves but can not get those right away neither a good photographer under rough conditions.

2.- I am calling this technique the MEXICAN RESCUE.

3.- The video will show the pumping out with the spray skirt on and the blade-thigh-brace-paddlefloat-outrigger on place.

4.- Finally, I´ll add to my kayaks a velcro type shaft holder on the right side, so that after placing the blade under the thigh braces, the shaft will be fixed to the boat and the kayaker will totally have both hands free to take pictures, eat, fish, pee, pump out or whatever.

5.- I´ll demo the "Mexican Rescue" technique under witnesses, instructors and public,  in the Memorial Day Surffest in Corpus Christi. See details of Surffest at.  <http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/kircus_trips/>http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/kircus_trips/

Finally if you were not joking and  would like some molds of the Performa II we can talk about it off line.

Thanks for your input,

Best Regards,

Rafael
el cayucochief
www.mayanseas.com
pictures at http://community.webshots.com/user/cayucochief





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