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Knowing how to swim won't help if one is knocked unconscious, in saying that I used to swim way out past the breakers, out past the surfers, while my grandfather stood on the beach frantically trying to call me back to shore, I also was a gobby wee shite. Can't believe I used to actually do that. Can't believe Hunch wouldn't insist on buoyancy devices for her kids, actually I can.I kayaked a lot growing up, my dad did slalom kayaking & wanted my sisters and I out on the reg to keep it up (and so that my mum didn’t try and get rid of the 4 kayaks in the garage that she hated). I was an arsehole of a teenager and continuously refused to wear a life jacket, so my dad hid my paddle…this was about 10 years ago and I still don’t know where tf he put it for the few months before I left home for uni
but he was very adamant that no jacket = no kayaking. And I can swim. I don’t think we’ve ever seen R or L in swimming lessons, apart from that one private one when Fiddles was…fiddling.
ETA: I know now that being able to swim wouldn’t necessarily be able to get me out of any situation that would need a buoyancy aid. But 14-18 year old me was a gobby Wee shite![]()