There was an incident some years ago in this area wherein a kayaker had attached that rear painter to the grabloop with an ordinary carabiner (i.e. no locking mechanism). While towing another kayak he pulled the rope forward to get it out of the cleat. The towed kayak promptly slid back on the rope and pushed its grabloop through the gate, locking the two boats together -- unreachable for the paddler. Fortunately he was able to get to shore where he could get out and unclip it... Joe P. -----Original Message----- >From: James >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 - 08:06:00 PDT
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