By rights you need five things to paddlle in Canadian coastal and
inshore waters.
A paddle ( just one )
A PFD ( Boyancy Aid , Life Vest.)
A bailng device ( Pump or bailer )
A 15 Meter floating tow rope .
A sounding device ( Whistle )

Off shore or after dark there is more stuff.
Flares and Signaling device for over one mile from a headland and a
light visible from 360 degrees for night. A flashlight qualifies there.

I would always carry a paddle float, inflatable in summer and rigid
styrafoam paddle float in winter.
Practice in reentry skills is a must as well.
Hope this helps Muzz
Alex

wrote:
By rights you need five things to paddlle in Canadian
coastal and inshore waters.
A paddle ( just one )
A PFD ( Boyancy Aid , Life Vest.)
A bailng device ( Pump or bailer )
A 15 Meter floating tow rope .
A sounding device ( Whistle )

Off shore or after dark there is more stuff.
Flares and Signaling device for over one mile from a
headland and a light visible from 360 degrees for night.
A flashlight qualifies there.

I would always carry a paddle float, inflatable in summer
and rigid styrafoam paddle float in winter.
Practice in reentry skills is a must as well.
Hope this helps Muzz
Alex

Maybe it's my terrible tiscali news server but there was loads of replies
from you there Alex !
Are you the guy from Newfoundland ? Watched a film called 'Shipping News' in
the hols set in Newfoundland, nice and a good film too.

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Muzz
http://highlandmist.blogspot.com
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Yes I am in Newfoundland and the server I think screwed up. It never
posted the reply and I thought it importsaant enough to try again when
it did not show up in an hour or so, then again, and apparently again
and again....
Shipping news was filmed a couple of hundred KM from here. It is quite
the spot. The landscape you see int he film is what we paddle in all
the time.
I am from Scotland but that goes back a long time.
Alex