Emergency gear

I began making a tw0-piece kayak paddle out of some old marine plywood and a couple lengths of closet pole. One of the poles turned out to have a big crack in it, so what I have so far is a single-blade paddle that I'm going to try to stash under the deck behind the cockpit. It has a tung oil finish and epoxy on the end of the blade.

The accessory du jour is a set of shock cord and straps aft of the cockpit to hold a paddle float and to hold the paddle during self-rescues.