An all too likely event can be controlled with the right knowledge and gear
Hugh Horton, Contributing Editor, Harrison Township, Michigan
My narrow background guides my decisions. Carefully consider your circumstances.
After I gybed back to the swamped sailing canoe at the Killbear Canoe Rendezvous in September ‘05, I thought of Roger Taylor’s series about seamanship. The swimming sailor’s tube style pump wasn’t getting it done. Wavelets instantly refilled what dozens of pump strokes had squirted out.
I sailed up, held her against my boat, Walela, and used Walela’s bailer. In two dozen scoopfuls, she was left with a quart or so under the floorboards, along her ribs and lapstrake planking. Wind was offshore, and I drifted a couple boat lengths away. Her canoeist, a young man, tried again to climb in over the stern. But the boat was still too unstable, so I came back and steadied her. Just the afternoon before he’d gone over in a lighter, onshore breeze. But Lake Huron was warm, and he swam her in.
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Edgar T. Holding's plans for a proper and rail-transportable sailing canoe. From The Field, January 9, 1892 Edited by Dan Miller, Contributing Editor, Wynantskill, New York
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