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 *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 26 2007 - 07:21:55 PDT
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