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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle?
By:dhwdaniels
Date: 9/10/2010, 3:29 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle? (Bill Hamm)

: Kayaker's use toggles as handles but that's not what they are for,
: they are to hold onto be a kayaker in the water to control and
: rescue the boat. Handles are pretty much worthless for a swimmer
: in the water.

: I capture the toggles with a loop of bungie running back to the
: deck rigging, easy to remove the toggle from the bungie loop in
: a rescue otherwise it's secured snug to the deck.

: Bill H.

Hello all,
Handles and loops are not only worthless in rescues, they are dangerous. They can break your hand or fingers in a rescue in waves. Here in the Netherlands you are not allowed to come with a group of seakayakers when you do not have toggles and perimeter lines.

Greatings from the Netherlands
Daan Daniels

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle? *PIC*
barry boyette -- 9/9/2010, 9:19 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle? *PIC*
Joy -- 9/10/2010, 7:16 pm
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Shark Bait -- 9/10/2010, 11:17 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/11/2010, 8:01 pm
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John lasky -- 9/10/2010, 8:54 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2010, 1:33 am
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barry boyette -- 9/10/2010, 8:21 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/10/2010, 7:35 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/10/2010, 8:03 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 9/10/2010, 9:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2010, 1:41 pm
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wwfloyd -- 9/10/2010, 3:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2010, 12:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle?
dhwdaniels -- 9/10/2010, 3:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Toggle or handle? *NM* *PIC*
barry boyette -- 9/9/2010, 9:20 pm