Re: [Paddlewise] River Death from July

A Seattle paddler caught the zipper pull at her waist in a vee-shaped notch where the seat joined the coaming and could not wet exit until she purposefully reversed and released the snag. B Setsuko made a lot of noise about this on West Coast Paddler, motivating the rext of us to look for similar snag opportunities. B All of us found some. B A prime area was footpegs, for the sandal-addicted. B Another was those wedge-shaped terminations on Chota bungee-laces.

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Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR

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>From pamvetdr_at_aol.com 
Date: 10/04/2013  12:13 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To jpylka_at_earthlink.net,paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net 
Subject Re: [Paddlewise] River Death from July 
 
I have had trouble wet exiting from a small cockpit kayak, when the women's
relief zipper on my suit was catching on both sides of the cockpit. This was
only when I hadn't burped my suit very well, and was caused by an expansion of
the seat area with the air when capsized (upside down). I learned to twist so
one hip came out of the cockpit first. Finally I ended up getting a different
drysuit with NO women's relief zipper.
B B B B B  Pam in Washington State
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