I too am a large person and worried about an open water re-entry. I'm very
interested in your experience.

1. Can you provide a better description of what you call a "swim ring"? Can
you point to a picture of one on the web somewhere?

2. I don't understand your description of the setup (the second one
described). Can you elaborate?

Thanks!


"TWall10618" wrote in message
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I'm a pretty big guy and I worry about needing to do a solo deep water
remount.
Even though I have a fairly wide boat, (Loon 160 now, earlier a Coleman
Scanoe
and Folbot Super), Any unassisted attempt to remount has always flipped my
boat. (I pracitced in my swimming pool this Summer). The only thing that
worked
fairly well was to tie off a cheap, half inflated swim ring and use it as
a
step up. It worked, but it was ungarceful and I don't know how well it
would
work in waves.

Now that my pool is too cold to experiment in, I think I have an
improvement on
the idea and would like some feedback.

What if you took a long adjustable strap and tied one end to a swim ring?
The
other end would go under the boat and then over the cockpit and be lashed
to
some point inside the boat. Another strap and ring would be rigged from
the
other side. Now, all you would need would be a foot stirup on the side you
wanted to mount from and in you'd go before the boat flipped.

I'm not sure this would work, but it would be cheap and would provide a
stable
Summer swimming platform.

Has anyone tried this before?

Tom,
Tucson