Re: [Paddlewise] Was Frostbite - now brush with infamy

Doug wrote>

> PS Re you're brush with fame on CHEK TV with Igor the seal: were you aware 
> there was a storm-sewer warning for the coast due to the heavy rains?
>
> Or have you had military training? "Crap is my friend!"
>
> DL

Missed that but it only makes sense. However since we were off the Toney 
part of town, 10 Mile Point,  only gold nuggets would have washed out of the 
storm sewers.  We could have used you as there was some silliness going on. 
Your experience would have been welcomed.  I suggested that if anyone lost 
their boat that we regroup on Jemmey Jones Island if we were fortunate to 
catch up with the kayak, only to be told you can't land there.

Odd that; as I've stood on top of Jemmey Jones in a 45 knot Gale after 
landing with five other kayakers.  I know this for a fact as Mike Jackson 
was standing next to me when he measured the wind speed with his nifty wind 
gauge.  I also had one Paddler say she didn't want to paddle in the tide 
race but only on the edge, then watched her and her "Buddy" paddle strait 
into the race.  I thought that very odd as well. I concluded either she has 
a short term memory problem or more likely does not understand the affects 
of current.

I wanted everyone to pay close attention to the group dynamics and to be on 
the lookout for anyone in trouble but got over ruled by this woman and her 
close friend who insisted the buddy system was better.  At the end of the 
day I initiated an impromptu rescue session by coming out of my boat next to 
the buoy.  There were four kayakers in the immediate area, two came to 
assist while the "buddies" never looked around and paddled off to the put in 
sight.  When we got back they didn't Evan know that a rescue had taken 
place.  If things had gone badly we could have been in a bit of a spot.

The Buddy system should be the beginning of your group awareness not the end 
of it.

Gordin Warner 
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