A sunny day in September is, according to our chief instructor, a good time for doing rescues. We start with simple things like getting back in.
Then we moved on to more challenging items like self-rescue of a group of three upturned paddlers.
The water wasn’t that warm, but the instructor likes to be thorough in his advice on every stage of the rescue, which makes it quite a slow affair.
The blurred spot on the last picture is water on the lens, the only evidence for my own self rescue with paddle float re-enter and roll, only possible with a sea kayak with sealed forward hold. The ‘Corsica’ style general purpose kayaks are sociable boats – needing a companion to facilitate re-entry, except in very calm water.
tim P