Re: [Paddlewise] PFD questions

From: RICHARD CULPEPER <culpeper_at_tbaytel.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:21:38 -0400
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:45:33 -0300
  John Winters <jdwinters_at_eastlink.ca> wrote:
>Then there are a bunch of surfers paddling their surf boards, standing up on 
>their surf boards and swimming (They seem to fall off occasioanlly). They don't wear life jackets. Meanwhile we get a few 
>kayakers in what look like whitewater boats to me also surfing. They wear lifejackets. So that brings me back to my question that 
>Chuck did not answer. Maybe there is some other set of conditions worth investigating to get it answered.

If you are surfing a kayak in shallows (such as toward the end of a surf), and you tip over, your head goes bunka-bunka-bunka on 
the bottom until you either roll up or wet-exit.  If you are on a surfboard, you are not held upside down with your head whacking 
the bottom as you are in a kayak.

Cheers,
Richard Culpeper
http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/index2.html
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