----- Original Message ----- From: "Coplan, Karl" <KCoplan_at_law.pace.edu> > Second cent: you just might end up being one of those few kayakers whose > roll saves them in combat conditions. > > --Karl Coplan For the entire summer last year I really beat up a fellow paddler who was VERY keen to roll well. I pushed her over any chance I could. It was a love hate kind of thing. She persisted through this "training" and can now roll well under most real conditions. Her confidence grew as well. One day while out in an area of consistantly weird water off of Tybee Island GA (USA) she drifted much further out than she should have. She had separated herself from our surfing group by several hundred yards. For the most part all you could see was the flash of her orange paddle blade as she struggled to stay upright. Waves were a three directional melee consisting of 7 foot heavily breaking swells/waves/slopola. As we fought our way out to her she finally lost it and went over. I smiled with satisfaction as she patiently waited upside down for a calm spot and rolled up confidently. We joined up and went to the beach for a snack. I told her that if she had come out of the boat that she would have had to decide what one thing she would have wanted to keep. Her boat, her paddle or her life. There was no way we were going to get her back into her boat in those conditions. Absolutely no way. Jim et al *************************************************************************** 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 Thu May 20 2004 - 12:41:06 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:14 PDT