So, in addition to having personal safety gear like PFD’s and helmets, you also want to make sure you’re always carrying a throw rope, and a throw rope is fifty to seventy feet of line inside a nylon bag. The bags often have mesh sides, so they can drain water easily, and this allows you to keep a rope out of the way and inside your boat in a way that’s not going to get in way of your feet, not going to tangle up with things and it’s going to be ready to use when you need to use it. This has a nice wide opening and when you need to you can throw that to somebody in trouble or you can use that to haul a boat off a rock or to do a variety of other tasks that are, that are necessary sometimes on the river. Along with a throw rope you always want to have a knife, the reason you want to have a knife is because throw ropes do, not uncommonly get caught in things and have to be cut and you want to be able, be able, to be able to get out of whatever problem you’re in with a throw rope quickly and the knife is the way to do it. This is a folding knife that locks out, there are also non-folding knives that are sheath knives that you can put on your life jacket, I like this kind because it fits inside a pocket and I’m not worried about it falling out of, in the, by accident, and I’m not worried about it cutting somebody by accident either. The other things that you can carry with you are a couple of carabineers, a few carabineers help with river rescue, and a few Prussic loops of nylon rope and again, uh, these are all necessary sometimes when you’re using a throw rope to rescue a boat, to get a boat off a rock or something and they also come in handy in other applications as well. If you do carry carabineers and they clip onto your vest make sure you’re carrying locking carabineers, and that you lock them if you clip them to your vest, because if you don’t lock them they can end up inadvertently clipping to a boat or a rope and get you in real trouble.
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