: My closest call was getting caught under a windsurfer sail with a
: broken cover on a twisted harness line and unable to get past
: the mast for air.

: One's instinct is to go the shortest way and the way of habit.
: Windsurfing one comes up mast side because that is the shortest
: distance and where you want to be for rig control.

: Unable to pull the harness off the hook and getting very short of
: air the cold thought went through my mind, pulling harder is not
: working or going to work, if you don't settle down you are going
: to die.

: Amazing how the sudden seriousness of a situation can focus the
: mind. In the end I eyeballed the direction of twist, rotated and
: swam out the other side of the sail. By this time the option was
: a do or die option, it worked or I would not be writing this,
: but in retrospect I would have had a lot more time to try other
: options had I not wasted those few first moments in panic and
: fruitless effort.

: It is the only instance in which wearing buoyancy actually may have
: compounded the risk, as it prevented me from being able to sink,
: which would have made it much easier to untwist the harness
: line.
: I went through a similar situation when i my kayak overturned, u'd be suprised how fast thinking process works when theres the possibility that it could be the last, Kevin