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| - | **Reivers Dustin** \\ | ||
| - | 12/15/06 #2242 | ||
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| - | LB has some status with local CG due to all those years of chairing\\ | ||
| - | the Ski-to-Sea. He mentioned today about receiving an official notice\\ | ||
| - | of consern regarding kayaker exposure to hazard. Hopefully, he'll be\\ | ||
| - | able to post something about this. | ||
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| - | I'm aware of several deaths in the last decade involving sea\\ | ||
| - | kayakers. None of these were Surskiers or even sit-on-top type\\ | ||
| - | boats. However, we are perceived as one of them dang kayaker types. | ||
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| - | Due to National news coverage, I suspect that the machine has been\\ | ||
| - | stimulated and feels an urge to respond. If anyone reading this has\\ | ||
| - | ideas about improving our relationship with relevant local agencies,\\ | ||
| - | please help. There is a chance that this might even hamper waterfront\\ | ||
| - | development issues. I'm worried that "they" will decide that small\\ | ||
| - | craft access should be limited as a way of limiting public exposure to\\ | ||
| - | hazard. | ||
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| - | As LB said, local paddlers are mostly a highly educated, professional\\ | ||
| - | group. Unfortunately, this isn't quite enough of a ticket to a "leave\\ | ||
| - | us alone" policy. When you get noticed, you get help. | ||
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| - | Any ideas? | ||
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| - | **Jeff Hegedus <jhegedus@...>** \\ | ||
| - | 12/16/06 #2243 | ||
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| - | I view this incident as being similar to a typical alpine mountain rescue, where the\\ | ||
| - | participants were responsible, capable and knowledgeable, and where neither negligence\\ | ||
| - | nor recklessness was involved. The incident is an opportunity to review and improve areas\\ | ||
| - | of decision making and preparedness, that will imake us safer, reassure our loved ones,\\ | ||
| - | and improve and evolve the sport. | ||
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| - | It is not inapprpriate for the Coast Guard to communicate a level of concern, and I receive\\ | ||
| - | this feedback as being supportive rather than punitive. An appropriate response would be\\ | ||
| - | to thank them, and to describe to them our efforts to improve safety as a result of lessons\\ | ||
| - | learned. Search and Rescue doesn't expect the rescued alpinist to stay off the mountain,\\ | ||
| - | but does appreciate improvements in safety practices that result from an incident and\\ | ||
| - | their work. | ||
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| - | This incident will pass, and when it has, I hope that we are left with an improved set of\\ | ||
| - | safety practices, and an understanding with the Coast Guard of who we are and what we\\ | ||
| - | do, keeping it short simple and honest. Meanwhile, it should not be escalated by\\ | ||
| - | defensiveness, which would be natural; I have responded to inquiries by simply providing\\ | ||
| - | facts. | ||
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| - | Regarding waterfront redevelopment planning efforts, I am meeting Monday with the Port\\ | ||
| - | Executive Director and Director of Marina Services to describe what the needs are of the\\ | ||
| - | growing paddling community; this incident will not affect these considerations. | ||
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| - | It also won't affect my personal experience of being on the water, which I consider to be\\ | ||
| - | very intensely private. | ||
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| - | See ya' out there, Jeff. | ||
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| - | **Larry Bussinger <lbussing@...>** \\ | ||
| - | 12/17/06 #2249 | ||
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| - | I plan on contacting the Bellingham Coast Guard Commandant and\\ | ||
| - | starting a line of communication with him. I have business with him\\ | ||
| - | under the auspices of Ski-to-Sea anyway (kind of an ad-hoc committee\\ | ||
| - | of one) and it gives me a opportunity to open a line of discussion.\\ | ||
| - | Mike Hammer's comments echo what I've heard in this forum. The\\ | ||
| - | Coast Guard should be a part of this discussion and we have an\\ | ||
| - | opportunity to establish a healthy protocal with them in regards to\\ | ||
| - | safety and communication.\\ | ||
| - | Larry G. also has an opportunity to work with Stu Smith who is the\\ | ||
| - | Whatcom County Deputy in charge of water. With a little bit of\\ | ||
| - | forethought at this point, we can establish some guidelines between\\ | ||
| - | the sport and agency interaction. Like Eric points out, we're one\\ | ||
| - | of the largest groups for surfskis in the nation. (Sounds pretty\\ | ||
| - | pompus doesn't it?)\\ | ||
| - | Anyway, we can give some background to the Coast Guard of our sport\\ | ||
| - | and try to help them from getting to authoritative. They are our\\ | ||
| - | friends. | ||
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| - | Two things,\\ | ||
| - | I plan on using Morris's Wind-O-meter as my personnel criteria for\\ | ||
| - | paddling.\\ | ||
| - | I plan on using Larry G's gage of "if you can't paddle upwind, don't\\ | ||
| - | paddle downwind".\\ | ||
| - | These two criteria should save me a pile of grief. | ||
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| - | By the way, for those of you who aren't engineers, the kinetic\\ | ||
| - | energy of wind is a velocity squared sort of thing. Wind at 40 mph\\ | ||
| - | is four times as strong as wind at 20 mph. not twice. | ||
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