This channel provides tips for boaters on the key messages for the Canadian Safe Boating Council Safe Boating Awareness programs: • Wear Your Lifejacket • Don't Drink & Boat • Take a Boating Course • Be Prepared - You and Your Vessel • Cold Water Immersion
A good idea to not attach items to the thwarts as they would make a canoe over a canoe rescue tricky. clip multiple items together to make less of a yardsale if you were to tip over.
@@JohnCooperWilliam I meant before getting in. Pumping out takes far too long after getting back in, and water slopping about makes the kayak unsteady while pumping. Since writing, I’ve tried and demonstrated that first going to the bow, lifting it, like emptying it on land, works a treat. When empty, flip it and continue rescuing yourself with the paddle float.
Ah yes, I misunderstood. I’ve found that pushing down on the stern gets a lot out since there isn’t as much open space behind the back of the seat. Then I move to the cockpit and lift while boat is sideways. That gives more control when the last bit is sloshing around.
@@JohnCooperWilliam Lifted From the bow the water has nowhere to go except out. And kayak quickly gets lighter as it drains. Lifting from the stern it goes to the foot pedals and is trapped there. I did a long session of experimenting. Recommend trying the bow version.
This is simple and to the point. Thanks. New kayak with smaller cockpit. I’m finding different kayaks require different enter / exit strategies. Thanks.
I've been kayaking a few times now, and I never realized there were official ways to get in and out of the kayak... I always just get in it and go lol.
I was looking for a way to get in and out without getting my feet/legs wet. That sound a bit wimpy but the water temperature is about 53 F now (may 23).
Buy yourself some water shoes neoprene or something like it. I have never been able to get in and out of a kayak without getting my feet wet. It's rare that there's a dock and it's even more rare to find a shoreline where that can happen.
This is an excellent video, thanks to whoever got it produced. Even on nice sunny, summer things can go terribly wrong and a pleasure cruise transformed instantly into a salty ordeal and hellish nightmare.
*pos* just like mine, need to get rid of it; the opening should be L O N G E R so that you can exit IDE in a hurry, if it overturns instead of D R O W N I N G ; forget about the effing rolls!! avoid
The old-school method had us sitting on the paddle shaft, but this is a modern variation: we don't sit on the shaft, we just use the paddle for bracing.
There's also The Cisco Kid method where you take a run at breakneck speed from the shore, leap half the kayak and land in the seat. One wrinkle they never mention is when you're old and the bladder don't work (panic dismount). The boys & girls in a power boat just had to follow me so I went in a tiny secluded alcove of fallen trees & branches to pee, stepped out & my foot slid on a slimy submerged tree then into mud slime 12 inches deep and I fell face first into the 6" water with a few feet of black mud slime under it, grazed my shin and filled the kayak with swamp water smelling of old cabbages.
@@SWATT101 I finally gave up and bought a 13’ sit on Kayak which is a lot easier to get in and out of but…. Now my knees are starting to go so I still have issues with getting off this thing lol I have resolved to paddle into shore as far as I can, backwards, put my legs over the sides, stand up and push the boat out between my legs then I can stand up normally. Lol lol lol the guy I bought it from told me he would just paddle in to about 3’ of water and bail out over the side lol lol lol
why dont Kayak manufacturers make sit in kayaks with a lot bigger openings? it would be alot easier t get in and out of for those who only kayak for fun or for olde or fatter people. sit ons are great but sometimes I like my sit in, its just hard for me to exit with any bit of grace with my bad leg. lol Entering isnt to bad if I do it with the boat in really shallow water so it doesnt flip!! lol..
@@barry4fish19 thanks! I have since graduated to a 13’ fishing kayak that’s a “sit on top” it’s so much easier to get on and off of. It’s a world of difference except you get wet a lot more which is ok because we will usually stop some place and get out and swim.
This method does not work well in a river system with steep banks. Getting out and in a kayak is easy in a lake as you can easy ground your kayak as you are doing in this video
