[at-l] Crossing the Kennebec

[landis@epix.net (Steve Landis)]

I would take the advice of the eternally waterlogged
K7 on this one.  Actually I would add that you want to
keep your body at about a 45 deg angle to the flow,
your head upstream, on your back with your feet out ot
the water to prevent entrapment.  Never try to stand
in swift moving water.  The flow will move you
downstream and sideways to the opposite bank. This is
"Swimming 101" for paddlers who become separated from
their canoes and kayaks.

Steve

--- gwright@connix.com wrote:

> While I agree that jumping in and swimming towards a
> fixed point
> on the opposite shore isn't the right approach, if
> you want to
> cross a flow in the minimum amount of time without
> fighting the
> flow and without excessive downstream drift, you
> *should* swim
> perpendicular to the flow, no?  

kahley writes:
>  DO NOT try to swim
> straight across.  It
> > just doesn't work that way.....  Better just to
> > stay afloat and make gradual progress toward shore
> than to try and swim
> > perpendicular to the flow
> 




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