[CKF Info] Day #42, Pig Town Jig

Thu May 15 09:49:24 PDT 2008

Your note reminded me of the time I used to practice my rolls and rescues on
an estuary en Veracruz, and there was very bad weather and nobody around. I
drifted to a bend in L shape with long channel in both directions and saw
nobody.

As I was under, on one side of the kayak inflating my paddlefloat for a
reentry and roll, a pair of fishermen in a motor boat saw the kayak upside
down and came to see. As they approached unnoticed from the long distance I
finished inflating, entered the cockpit under the water and did my roll.

It was at the same instant that I was emerging to the surface that one
fisherman was leaning to pick up one side of the boat, to turn it over. I
never knew if his intentions was to rescue somebody or to claim the boat as
abandoned. Nobody goes here to the Coast Guard to return an abandoned boat. 

Anyway, his surprise and my surprise were extreme. We both screamed under
the unexpected sudden view. The first thing I saw coming up was 

the face of a person at close distance with big open surprised eyes,
shouting something. He must have felt that suddenly a strange creature was
coming from underwater to get him. 

After few seconds he asked me if I was OK and needed help, and I said that I
was only practicing. So they left silently. He must have remembered that day
for some time.

Best Regards,

Rafael

Mexico.

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Enviado el: jueves, 15 de mayo de 2008 11:10
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Asunto: Re: [CKF Info] Day #42, Pig Town Jig

In a message dated 5/15/2008 8:52:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, FryCat
writes

As a footnote to Marks Pig Town trip report.

This morning I called the Newport Beach Harbor Patrol to inquire about the
Zodiac I found on last nights Hot Dog paddle.  The Zodiac with outboard was
floating unanchored offshore. I called the Coast Guard and they said they
would call the Harbor Patrol.  According to Sally at the Harbor Patrol,
there was no log of any incidents like I described.  There was no sight of
the boat on the return paddle so who knows what happened. 

Ken

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