"Keith Meredith" wrote in message
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"Keith Meredith" wrote in message
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Hi
What kit would you advise a new paddler to spend money on?
Keith
Fantastic - a thread more than 5 posts long - now, what's the bit of kit
(apart from boat and paddle!) that you wouldn't set out without... and
please state discipline - sea, surf, whitewater, touring, etc.
Does a bottle of water count? Seriously, having water is more important to
me than having a hot drink ( I always have one with me but I frequently
don't touch it till we are back at the car.
Otherwise airbags in all the boats. It really gets on my tits when we are
teaching kids and we have lots of rescues to do, and they have to do them
too, and the boats don't have airbags- almost invariably kids tend to swamp
the boats and it is a sod to empty them. At one point I had two instructors
and seven kids, and I had two kids in the water at the same time and another
two looking like going over. They had swamped the boats, and I was taking
way longer than I should have to empty them. In the meantime the kids were
grabbing at my boat and there was a strong possibility that they were going
to put me over as well. Fortunately another coach arrived on scene and
emptied the other boat. So airbags all round.
Flat water coaching, whitewater.
Ewan Scott
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