I'm surprised we don't hear about more people getting into trouble in heavy seaweed. I'm always concerned when I paddle over it. I try practicing rolling in the lighter stuff, occasionally, but I always seems to pick up a critter when I do! Mark On 2/25/2012 12:31 PM, Robert Carter wrote: > This mass of seaweed and kelp looks to be floating loose. > It would have been another matter if the long strands of kelp had been > attached to the shore bottom. > Years ago while rounding Point Gardner on Admirailty Island during > high seas my bow plunged into and under a large mass of anchored Kelp. > I was pounded for several minute while I broke the kelp apart with my > bare hands. (The was the day I learned to carry a deck knife!) > Catching a bow or stern in tangled anchored kelp especially in a surf > like this video could prove a bad ending to a great day. > > Bob *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Feb 25 2012 - 17:17:56 PST
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