Kirk Olsen suggested: One option that I've come up with is to paddle next to the end of the boat, and grab the rudder, or stern - but that sounds very difficult ( I would be working from a 17.5", 45 cm, beam boat). Maybe put a paddle face against one end of the tumbling boat and trying to rotate the tumbling boat to be perpendicular to the waves instead of parallel. __________ Yes, that sounds very difficult: a slightly less dramatic option might be to clip a sea anchor on a short tether to the errant boat's bow fitting or line to bring the bow up into the wind and stop the window shade effect. That said, how many of us carry a sea anchor readily accessible on deck? (If I were doing that kind of paddling, I guess I might -- but I'm not -- and I don't.) Would need a quick hand and a gutsy paddler. Joq *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Sep 07 2010 - 08:03:26 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:43 PDT