Thursday, May 6, 2010

A Vital Paddling Tool...

GuideLines - The Float Plan: A Vital Paddling Tool.

Years ago, when I took the US Coast Guard Auxiliary-- Safe Boating Course, filing a boating plan with someone was a safety measure that makes sense.  It's about letting someone know where you're going, how long you're going to be out and your estimated time of return.  Then if things happen and they do, there is someone available to help or alert authorities.

Airplane pilots have checklist and one necessity is filing a flight plan.  Safe boating requires the same thing...

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I took the moniker when I was doing regular kayak rentals on one of my local lakes... While paddling, I always came back with a kayak-full of garbage that I picked up around the shore... Because I was there so often, the rental people started calling me Kayak Dave... My first kayaking excursion as a introductory sunset paddle on the Intercoastal Waterway near Hilton Head, SC... I was hooked and then a dolphin surfaced next to my kayak... WOW!