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| - | ==== More Leash Stories ==== | ||
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| - | Larry Bussinger <lbussing@...>\\ | ||
| - | 03/12/07 #2616 | ||
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| - | Carter Johnson just sent me a note about his Watertribe race in\\ | ||
| - | Flordia and gave me permission to post it. I had given him a leash\\ | ||
| - | in San Francisco last year telling him it just takes 5 seconds to put\\ | ||
| - | it on, so why even think about not putting it on every time. "You\\ | ||
| - | don't want the Coast Guard calling your girl friend saying they\\ | ||
| - | couldn't find you." I kind of made it my mission last year to get\\ | ||
| - | everyone to wear one, now you know why. | ||
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| - | "Larry – Just wanted to thank you for the Paddle leash you gave me\\ | ||
| - | last year. It probably saved my life in the Watertribe. We had small\\ | ||
| - | craft advisories for the last few days of the race. The winds would\\ | ||
| - | have easily barrel rolled my Surfski even with its 65lb pack of\\ | ||
| - | gear. On the last night around 1:30am, I found myself in a 35 mile\\ | ||
| - | open water crossing of Florida Bay. The headwinds were 25knots\\ | ||
| - | gusting to 40. I was not making smart decisions and got myself\\ | ||
| - | hopelessly suck in some mud. I hopped off the boat and immediately\\ | ||
| - | sunk up to my knees completely immobilized. Almost instantly, I felt\\ | ||
| - | a furious tug on my waist as the coiled leash pulled taught in\\ | ||
| - | seconds with my boat blowing out towards Mexico with conviction. Had\\ | ||
| - | the leash not been on, I would have been stuck alone in the bay 15\\ | ||
| - | miles from anybody in the pitch black of the night without my gear or\\ | ||
| - | hypothermia kit. I was able to crawl on all fours for a half mile\\ | ||
| - | towing the boat via the leash till I could take shelter up in some\\ | ||
| - | mangrove roots till the sun came up. I did not wear a leash last\\ | ||
| - | year and probably would not have this year had your words not\\ | ||
| - | resonated with me. The final Florida Bay crossing that Sally and I\\ | ||
| - | did last year in 5.5 hour took me not a minute shy of 16 hours." | ||
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