Re: [Paddlewise] What's in the PFD?

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After reading Paddlewise, I thought if I bought more gadets I didn't need 
skills to be safe.... now I am confused ....

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Lloyd" <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca>

> Mark Sanders said (snip):
>
>> Still seems hard to really calculate your actual risk. Did the dead 
>> without
>> PFD still die of hypothermia? Could they even swim? What was their over 
>> all
>> skill level?
>
> Skill level? What does that have to do with it? Oh wait, maybe that's why 
> Nigel Foster can stand upright in his kayak, while Timmy perhaps needs his 
> sponsons. Of course, Timmy can stand on his head in his sponson-equipped 
> kayak. Well, the point is, skill level has everything to do with it. I 
> know a fair number of highly skilled paddlers who don't wear immersion 
> apparel for every little trip anymore. They prefer not to advertise that 
> fact around newbies though. I seem to have a knack for finding trouble (I 
> usually go looking for it, otherwise I soon get bored), so I always wear 
> my immersion gear and PFD (at the very least, a rolled down wetsiut just 
> below torso level, which should give me time to re-enter if wet-exiting on 
> warmer summer days).
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