Comments on: the swim

By: Bryan Sarauer

Bryan Sarauer — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:20:04 +0000

Thanks for the story of your swim! Here are some of my favourite swims:
This one from last week and it was on purpose, really. http://pawistik.blogspot.ca/2012/04/out-practising-what-i-preach.html

This one was also a chilly one, and definitely not on purpose. http://pawistik.blogspot.ca/2008/04/nice-day-for-swim.html

And this one was from a canoe trip a couple years ago, nice hanging brace and a unsecured barrel that rolled over leads to me in the water: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/snXTCaSQwb-5dE9P-VnucNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

When teaching kayak lessons I sometimes like to trip over my paddle during a draw stroke to demonstrate why I end the stroke several inches away from the hull. They think it’s pretty funny and I get to demonstrate a roll.

Cheers,
Bryan

By: matt duke

matt duke — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:47:07 +0000

i love humble pie. really i do

Matt

By: scott

scott — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:31:42 +0000

My pfd comment from above should be here! Write on…..

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:43:29 +0000

An old guide told me once that when you fall out of or flip a boat when leading clients, the best thing is to pop up out of the water (assuming your head went under), proclaim to the group, “Nope, there aren’t any trout here, let’s keep moving,” then get back in your boat and continue downstream without mentioning the fall. He called it scouting for trout, which sounds much more melodious when spoken with a Canadian maritime accent. The lesson: you never dump a boat or fall out, you were scouting for trout.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:27 +0000

I am wondering how you managed to keep your top half dry. When I dump its in top first, and my legs are the last part to get wet.