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Lucylastic -> RE: Kayaking (8/29/2012 5:28:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: JeffBC
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
I also learned how to empty out a waterlogged canoe, in the water but I needed to have another canoe and another person to help do it,:)
Canoe or kayak? I never found it hard with the kayak. I just kind of plopped the bilge pump in the cockpit and leaned on the boat with my body in the water till I got most of it out. Then I'd climb on in and get the rest. Then I'd use the handy sea sponge we stored behind the seat to mop up the last little dribbles.
Now its making me wanna go out n do it again, LOL
*laughs* No joke. Our kayaks need some rigging work but this thread is motivating me to get on down to the local kayak place and get the parts. Right at our house is "the gorge" which is a fairly large river (without the actual river part *laughs*... it's just a cut in the land where the ocean is.. no "flow"). But that's relatively safe in terms of wind & tides. I'm going to need some professional instruction though before I head on out into the open water. But man, I'd love to do something like paddle from sidney to pender island. I just need to know how to do it without being washed out to sea.
Oh the memories.. I love Lizi's descriptions too:)
Think this is the closest I can find to what it looked like. (it was 30+ years ago) it was called a snipe back then.
[image]http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h366/sycad83/181307_10151825313230184_304350499_n.jpg[/image]
One person would sit in the "rescue" canoe, with me at the front, pushing the the front down and dragging the logged one over it, so the seat was balanced over the tip, a T shape if you will, then lifting up one end to drain it out.....then do the same at the other end...and repeat till its mostly empty, it works better with two tho.
I didnt do much sea canoeing (a couple of weeks for three years) , but I used to keep one eye on a landmark, and just paddle like hell towards it, altho it was a bay, it had one very strong current, that would drag you off towards rocks, but once you were past it, the natural tide would bring you in... im sure somewhere they have currents marked on the route you want... things have advanced so much in the past 30 years:)
Have fun,
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