Esquimautage

The esquimautage indicates the operation to rectify a Kayak capsized. Esquimauter makes it possible to the kayaker to take again his navigation without leaving its boat, i.e. without letting there enter of water. This technique is imperative for the Inuits who cannot plan to swim in ice-cold water of the Arctic. It is indissociable practice of the kayak for hunting.

There exist very many techniques for esquimauter. Among most current in the sporting and entertaining practices modern:

side method
central method
method Pawlata

The basic principle consists in making coincide a movement of Pagaie which gives a support on water, and a movement of the body (mainly around the basin) which makes turn the boat towards its rectified position.

The Pawlata method is an adaptation to the modern paddles of a technique of traditional esquimautage. Inuits indeed developed a whole repertory of figures to be able esquimauter in various configurations in hunting, the instruments being able to interfere with the movements of the hunter. It seems that the greatest richness of techniques is indexed with the Greenland. One can quote inter alia:

lying on the back
lying on before (storm roll)
the arms crosseds
the paddle behind the nape of the neck
out of scull
without paddle (with engine of harpoon)
without paddle (with the hand)
with the trunk (arms crosseds along the body)

Beyond these figures of esquimautage, a whole of techniques of scull were developed in order to explore the field of the intermediate positions between the right position and the turned over position: kayak balances some on the section. One can thus to reach certain home positions, the head out of water.

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