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| Some of you are on islands or are across the country, but what about the rest of you? Any outings on these big days? Besides Saturday's P4Food adventure? Paul and I had a good run down Lake Whatcom yesterday. Seemed like it was ESE, SE, WSW, ESW, ABCDEF, and a little bit more. Luckily it lined up nicely with our takeout at Bloedel. | Some of you are on islands or are across the country, but what about the rest of you? Any outings on these big days? Besides Saturday's P4Food adventure? Paul and I had a good run down Lake Whatcom yesterday. Seemed like it was ESE, SE, WSW, ESW, ABCDEF, and a little bit more. Luckily it lined up nicely with our takeout at Bloedel. | ||
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| Yesterday we were in and out of the wind at various points. For a good part of the run from the south fire station (we like starting there because it is relatively protected and we get a good warmup) the wind was more concentrated on the far side. You could see the whitecaps running right to left closer to the far shore in Blue Canyon so we paddled up the canyon a bit and over to the far side then had wind and waves to Reveille Island. We chose to stay left through the middle of the lake and missed out on some of the stronger wind and waves there that were farther out, but it was nice to be more out of the gusts which were kind of obnoxious at times. Caught some funky rebound at Strawberry Pt., but Denise was on a good wave and zipped right through that. Then the waves started to build again for the nice finale at Bloedel with a quick turn across the waves at the end to land near the boat ramp - good place to practice beam paddling on a day like yesterday. | Yesterday we were in and out of the wind at various points. For a good part of the run from the south fire station (we like starting there because it is relatively protected and we get a good warmup) the wind was more concentrated on the far side. You could see the whitecaps running right to left closer to the far shore in Blue Canyon so we paddled up the canyon a bit and over to the far side then had wind and waves to Reveille Island. We chose to stay left through the middle of the lake and missed out on some of the stronger wind and waves there that were farther out, but it was nice to be more out of the gusts which were kind of obnoxious at times. Caught some funky rebound at Strawberry Pt., but Denise was on a good wave and zipped right through that. Then the waves started to build again for the nice finale at Bloedel with a quick turn across the waves at the end to land near the boat ramp - good place to practice beam paddling on a day like yesterday. | ||
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| uhmmm - I learned I don't really care for a nose leash: | uhmmm - I learned I don't really care for a nose leash: | ||
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| I was also enlightened to the fact that my surfski technique is not yet up to the level of the technical on the Bay we had in the early afternoon. And my life jacket was too loose. And my paddle was levered out of my hand one time by my boat necessitating a quick grab to get it back - a paddle leash might have been a good idea for me today. I was not pulled out of the water, but I did wind up pulling myself back into my surfski 6 times. | I was also enlightened to the fact that my surfski technique is not yet up to the level of the technical on the Bay we had in the early afternoon. And my life jacket was too loose. And my paddle was levered out of my hand one time by my boat necessitating a quick grab to get it back - a paddle leash might have been a good idea for me today. I was not pulled out of the water, but I did wind up pulling myself back into my surfski 6 times. | ||
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