Re: [Paddlewise] research item

From: Darryl <Darryl.Johnson_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:16 -0400
> 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.
> 

I am intrigued by this.

In the last four plus years of kayaking, I have yet to hear of anyone 
getting injured this way, let alone know of anyone personally. (My 
other kayaking was so long ago that I have forgotten almost 
everything: and I don't think there were grab handles on kayaks back 
then anyway.)

Yet the assumption must be that there *are* injuries of this sort for 
Gordon to start a research project on it.

I would be interested in seeing a copy of any replies sent to the 
list as well as to Gordon. (It's the stuff you don't know about that 
ends up biting you in the ass.)

-- 
  Darryl
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