Steve Cramer: Back in the day one WW rescue setup was to mount a cleat on your stern deck behind your right elbow and run a line from the stern to the cleat. You could pull the line out, run it through the front loop of a boat,recleat, and do a close tow. I never allowed my students at the Madawaska Kanu Centre to have any lines on their decks once I had a student almost drown because he had the setup Steve describes. If you can pull the line out of the cleat, so can the river. My student was upside down in a big hole and the line came loose, wrapped around his arm and made a nasty scene. I was impressed with the large number of people that had this same setup on their WW boats. I would think a big wave could do the same to any boat with a cleated line. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 28 2008 - 06:14:17 PDT
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