I waited a few days and waited to post this to think about it, I was out on a nice lake upstate near Syracuse. Sunset and it was gorgeous. Grandkids were paddling and I sat in the middle, daughter had her own kayak.
We set ashore and the kids got out to swim, as dis daughter to watch them, I paddled out about 100-200 yards off shore to bass fish. So nice peaceful casting retrieving. Very quiet.....a family in a small pleasure craft comes past me and waves and passes by..........a few moment latter the wake caught up to me and flipped me right in the lake. Now I am in big trouble to far for me to swim in my feeble condition, the canoe would not float,every time I leaned on it ,it went under I generally never ever panic but this time I had cause to. Daughter started out to get me but it was getting harder and harder to stay above water.. At this point I truly believed I was going to drown,and was a miserable way to go. The boat that passed me turned around and at the last second threw me a life jacket to hold on to. They then pulled me up on board. Tied up canoe and took it ashore and me as well. Even offered me dry clothes.Now let me say I have been canoeing my entire life and never tipped a canoe ever. It was not even in my dreams.
Now I own this and if i had died it would have been my own fault for not having a life jacket.I will never step in a water craft again with out my own.
I am writing this so you too can think twice about what might happen out of the blue. No matter how much experience you have it just don't matter. Please never let a child or yourself get in ant water craft with out a proper life jacket. I don't care if I get invited out the the Moriches inlet to fish on a boat, I aint going with out a jacket, and everyone on the boat can break my nuts ,I saw my life slipping away once. Take care Mike.
We set ashore and the kids got out to swim, as dis daughter to watch them, I paddled out about 100-200 yards off shore to bass fish. So nice peaceful casting retrieving. Very quiet.....a family in a small pleasure craft comes past me and waves and passes by..........a few moment latter the wake caught up to me and flipped me right in the lake. Now I am in big trouble to far for me to swim in my feeble condition, the canoe would not float,every time I leaned on it ,it went under I generally never ever panic but this time I had cause to. Daughter started out to get me but it was getting harder and harder to stay above water.. At this point I truly believed I was going to drown,and was a miserable way to go. The boat that passed me turned around and at the last second threw me a life jacket to hold on to. They then pulled me up on board. Tied up canoe and took it ashore and me as well. Even offered me dry clothes.Now let me say I have been canoeing my entire life and never tipped a canoe ever. It was not even in my dreams.
Now I own this and if i had died it would have been my own fault for not having a life jacket.I will never step in a water craft again with out my own.
I am writing this so you too can think twice about what might happen out of the blue. No matter how much experience you have it just don't matter. Please never let a child or yourself get in ant water craft with out a proper life jacket. I don't care if I get invited out the the Moriches inlet to fish on a boat, I aint going with out a jacket, and everyone on the boat can break my nuts ,I saw my life slipping away once. Take care Mike.
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