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Originally posted by Tburg
About 6 years back woke one sunday in the early fall ( over cast and misty) and took the yak out to play in some swells to work off a hang over. The surf was up and i liked to ride the waves in and padlle out. ( the one i have is about 14' and 55#) Well after doing that for a half hour I paddled out to rest...I looked out to see a set forming bigger than the ones I was riding. I thought I could paddle down and get around.. I started paddleing and the swell grew and I was beat. I had no time to turn onto it and it started to break...Just before it hit I undid my leg straps, wave hit..I got tossed and went under , the yak went airborn...not sure what happened after that... all I remember is opening my eyes and all i could see was the inside of the front of the vest..I was still in the water but because of the way Yak vests are cut to allow arm movement they tend to float up on you when you are in the drink. A wave hit and water just came in on me. My feet wer just touching sand. My head was throbbing and I had a huge egg on the top of my dome... I adjusted the vest and so I could see, looked into shore and saw the yak getting tossed about on the beached...I still had the paddle in hand and some how made it to shore. I dragged the yak up the beach fell to the sand and started my own yaking....I hear a voice from the sea wall..."you sure were out floating in that water for a long time..almost came out to get you..." all I could do was shake my head and continue puking....ALWAYS WEAR YOUR PFD
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Jesus, that sounds scary! Glad you survived that one.
I think it was two falls ago, fall of '03 I think... two women went kayaking off of a beach in Harwich, Mass on a calm sunny fall morning. Well, the fog rolled in quickly and they became lost.
CHATHAM - As the weather worsened, the Coast Guard ended its search for the second kayaker missing for more than two days.
The search for Sarah Aronoff, 19, of Bethesda, Md., was ended around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said.
She and a friend Mary Jagoda paddled a pair of 8-foot plastic kayaks into the fog off Harwichport Sunday afternoon. They didn't return after 10 minutes, as expected, and their waiting boyfriends called for help. The Coast Guard found a body believed to be that of Mary Jagoda, 20, of Huntington, NY, around noon yesterday about four miles south of Monomoy Island, a federally protected bird refuge.
Aronoff was a student at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., who met Jagoda through their boyfriends, according to her mother, Victoria Aronoff. At Aronoff's family home in Bethesda yesterday, Jody Benjamin, a family friend who stayed to watch Sara's two younger brothers while her parents were in Cape Cod during the search, said Sara is a lifeguard, a lifelong swimmer who coached youngsters in the sport.
Sara had been on the local swim team for 12 years and is majoring in physics and astronomy at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., Benjamin said. Sara and Mary were friends through Sara's boyfriend, Joe Sachs, Mary's classmate.
The Coast Guard searched continuously for 50 hours by boat, plane and on foot, and covered an area of 710 square nautical miles before ending the search, Petty Officer Jaimie Knife said.
The two capsized kayaks were found Monday in an area known as Pollock Rip Channel, a mile south of Monomoy, an island south of Chatham that is about eight miles long and several miles wide. Park rangers searched an abandoned lighthouse on Monomoy on Monday afternoon but there was no sign of the two women. - AP
Cape Cod Times Story
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