[Paddlewise] research item

I'm starting a little research project.  Ok maybe not so little.  I'd 
like to hear first person accounts from anyone who has been injured 
by the grab handle loop on the bow or stern of a kayak.

Those who have had a finger broken, dislocated, or injured in anyway 
by these loops, if you could email me the details it would be helpful.

Try to include specific information such as:

1.	day and date of injury
2.	make of boat
3. 	sea state
4.	how the injury happened, carrying, grabbing for the boat in the water etc.
5.	nature of the injury, how long it to recover, etc.
6.	where the accident happened, Alaska, BC, Asia, where ever please 
go from a general location 	to a specific location such as (British 
Columbia, Vancouver Island surfing at Tofino)

If this turns out to be significant I planning to write the major 
manufactures to change this practice but before I do so I would like 
to get a better, pardon the pun, handle on this issue.

I will of course share the results of my research here and on other 
kayaking forms.

Email me back channel if you have any information you would like to 
share or if you know of someone who has been injured would pass this 
request on.

Thank you for you time
Gordin Warner
Victoria BC
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