Kayak accident - Seaside

Serious bummer.  Thoughts and best wishes to his family:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june242009/death_clatsop_6-24-09.php

Yeah. Sorry to hear about that. All the best to the family. They didn't mention what type of clothing he was wearing. But he was wearing his PFD so so far so good. That is a pretty rough patch of water there.

Z

The weather Wednesday morning started out beautiful and calm, but rapidly changed for the worse, gusting winds and big surf. Could be he was unable to get back in time or was taken unaware its suddenness. My prayers for him and deepest sympathy for those who knew and loved him.
                                                              Four Winds

damn.. i know we take risks in / on our lil boats in big water and small, but it seems we are seeing more of these losses lately. wonder where his paddling partner was?

This is an extremely sad occurrence!

Hopefully the resources of this board and its members will help to keep these types of accidents to a minimum.

-Mark-

Yea that really sucks. Could have been health related. Condolensces to the family.

Any word on whether they were able to ID the guy yet?

AJ,
go back and reread it, the top part of the article was an update. short version, yes they were able to ID him.

Oh, OK, thanks.  Didn't see it after the update.

no bigs

You're back from wandering?  Why aren't you out fishing?

nope not yet. not soon enough. and might not have time to fish when i do get back

AJ..... WR comes back on the 3rd of July from being over in beer land. and depending on his schedule i am trying to come up with something maybe up north here or northeast here for the weekend of the 11th of july i will keep ya informed if you and the girlfriend want to come up.

Marilyn

I'll see what we have lined up.  Thanks!

AJ

I spoke today with one of the beach patrol officers for the stretch on which this unfortunate indivudual was found.  His 1st words for me were "You know what you're doing?"  and then went on to tell me that he doesn't want to see another dead kayaker wash up on the beach.
I asked for some more info. to share on the board and he told me that the guy had bought his kayak 10 days prior to his death.  He also said that he believes the guy was fishing ,though they never recovered his rod.  According to the officer, it was definitely a Sit on Top yak and the gentleman was not dressed for immersion.
Later in the day I sat in Seaside and watched as a pair of gentlemen who were barely dressed for the conditions tried to figure out how to paddle and beach land a Cobra Tandem.  One managed to get back in after a huli, the other swam in.....
In the time I was there (between 3 and 4PM) I also saw 3 different kayak fishers head out. 

-Spot-