Timeline for How much flotation does a canoe need?
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 21:55 | comment | added | Martin F | How easy it it going to be to use the manual pump while thrashing around outside the boat? I'm not sure it's possible. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | ShemSeger | @JamesJenkins And sometimes you can't get the canoe floating again. As a boy, part of our training was paddling a capsized canoe back to shore. I have vivid memories of standing in my canoe while chest deep in glacier water, paddling with my arms over my head. The canoe was 5 ft under water. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | James Jenkins | Yes, and I probably handicapped myself in testing by staying near the shore. The water was only about 5-6 feet deep, which made it more difficult to get a good launch without touching bottom. I am actually pretty good at keeping the canoe (or sailboat) upright, and myself in it. When I do find myself in an emergency need for self recovery, it is reasonable to expect that cold, fatigue, injury, etc will make the " jump out of the water into the canoe like a fish" impossible, goal is "so that I can get in over the side as long as I have enough strength to turn it back over" | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | ShemSeger | @JamesJenkins Then you need to improve your swimming skills. You need to practice treading water so you can tread high enough to flop into he canoe without pulling the gunwales under water. You essentially need to jump out of the water into the canoe like a fish, flop and all. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 13:50 | comment | added | James Jenkins | I was not able to get back in without, filling the canoe to the point it sinks with me in it, even when completely empty of water. | |
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| Sep 13, 2016 at 15:07 | history | answered | ShemSeger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |