NYCkayaker Lessons Learned Was: B.B. incident 1st hand account

[Ralph Diaz]

I don't think I have set foot in a kayak, even for a short trip, that I have 
not learned some lesson or thing to change.  Hell, I paddled the other day 
and kicked myself for not adjusting the foot pedals that had flopped down 
and I couldn't get good foot contact with; and for forgetting to make 
certain that I did not sit down on the back part of my sprayskirt, making 
for some awkward tugging and pulling to get it in position to place on the 
coaming.

My point is that there are always lessons to be learned from the most 
mundane paddle trip to ones like the Brooklyn Bridge trip that had an 
incident in busy waters near a phenomenon (the waterfalls) that has 
international attention and that got reported extensively in the press.  I 
appreciate the reports by Erik and crew as well as the people on this list 
who responded to the incident with their observations.  They put the whole 
situation in perspective and provided us all for things to think about when 
leading or being on a trip be it in a busy harbor or on a quiet lake.

The number of posts were not all that much.  And most of them were 
instructive.

ralph diaz