Our local club has been asked to participate in a large open water swim competition by acting as race course escorts and assisting swimmers in trouble. The course is a 3K and 5K triangular course held on a bay with typical 6"-1' of chop with larger boat wakes possible. I believe a number of our members are quite capable open water paddlers and have the ability to perform rescues if needed. I'd like to hear any advice from those of you that have had experience in races such as this. Cheers, Chris Chris Kuhlman CK Productions 281.474.2333 www.ckpro.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Chris Kuhlman wrote: > Our local club has been asked to participate in a large open water > swim competition ...... > Cheers, > Chris > I did this a few times. The most common assistance given was helping keep the weaker swimmers on course. A very few swimmers would eventually veer off in an odd direction. A kayaker would come along side and give them a bit of encouragement and tell them to keep the boat on their right/left depending on which way they were veering. The other thing we did was keep an eye out for high speed boats and waved them off with raised paddles. It was all great fun and we received free lunch and T-shirts. 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/ ***************************************************************************
When I first read this I thought it said Swimsuit Competition Escorts... *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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