Keith Meredith wrote:

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.

We had a gear evening earlier in the year, where the club training
officer was going through useful things to take on a (sea kayak) trip.
She asked folk to bring along a favourite bit of kit, and say why it was
a fave.

The training officer's own stated fave was a roll of plastic bags,
reinforcing that in a weekend of sea paddling you typically spend more
time camping, preparing food, packing and unpacking than you do paddling.

Mine was a pair of wicking underpants, as they dry out faster than they
get wet, at least if you're not wearing a wet suit. Very big comfort
difference, and no need to change them when you get out.

A new chap, who'd been out and bought /everything/ (including a P&H
quest, before he'd even been kayaking), took a VHF radio that had an
interlock to his GPS. Compare and contrast with dry pants and a roll of
ziplock baggies! ;-)

Pete.
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