Thanks to all that responded. It has been most enlightening. With 30+ years of paddling I'm quite familiar with pinning of canoes and somewhat familiar with the risk in ww boats. However, relative to sea kayaks it has never come up in pre or post trip safety discussions, or risk assessments. The areas where I paddle in the Midwest generally have minimal risk, but in retrospect, probably significantly greater than I was aware of. While pinning on a single point is possible, I would suspect that bridging between two points would be a far more likely, and dangerous condition with sea kayaks in the waters I paddle. > pinning is pinning, current is current. > > it is quite EZ to pin a SK in current. long, pointy, and very pinnable. We > wrapped one around a piling in the river, have pinned 'em up against wing > dams and boat houses. > > of course, you gotta be aware of pinning if you are in current of any type > and there is an obstruction. > > steve > Alder Creek Kayak & Canoe N 45: 36.285' *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 16 2004 - 05:54:57 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:12 PDT