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| Dear Don, Dean, Mike and whoever else…..First I want to apologize for not being at the 2 PM Saturday paddle. Shaun and I had great intentions on paddling with you guys but we ran out of gas. My day started with a 6:30 AM call from Shaun (bastard needs to stay up later) wanting to know if I was awake yet. I said of course I was because I had to wake up to answer the phone (duh). Anyway, he said the bay was flat as glass and wanted me to grab the double Fenn and meet him at Fairhaven for an early morning paddle. The plan was to go out to Eliza Island, have a cup of coffee, head back to Fairhaven for lunch and then join up with you at 2 PM. Piece-o-cake. | Dear Don, Dean, Mike and whoever else…..First I want to apologize for not being at the 2 PM Saturday paddle. Shaun and I had great intentions on paddling with you guys but we ran out of gas. My day started with a 6:30 AM call from Shaun (bastard needs to stay up later) wanting to know if I was awake yet. I said of course I was because I had to wake up to answer the phone (duh). Anyway, he said the bay was flat as glass and wanted me to grab the double Fenn and meet him at Fairhaven for an early morning paddle. The plan was to go out to Eliza Island, have a cup of coffee, head back to Fairhaven for lunch and then join up with you at 2 PM. Piece-o-cake. | ||
| - | Since my wife was out of town (Las Vegas, don't ask me why), it was my job to take the dog for a walk or the dog would take herself for a walk. When I left the house I noticed that the wind was blowing about 10 - 15 out of the northwest. So on my way to Fairhaven, I had to stop and walk the dog because she will not take a dump anywhere near our yard (don't ask me why). Sure enough, when I got to Fairhaven at 8 AM, it was pretty calm and serene looking. We took off for Eliza confident that we would be back in about 2 hours. When we got near Hale passage (Hell's half acre)we encountered that northwest wind and the sound end of Lummi/Hale passage started to get a bit rough. Hale passage is a great channel for wind so the waves were building up and hitting our beam. We thought we had it beat but somehow one erant wave knocked us off our ski and into the warm waters of Puget Sound just before we rounded the safety of Eliza island (20 more strokes and we would have made it). No problem remounting and we circled around the point on Eliza and beached in front of Shaun's cabin to be greeted by his lovely wife and some coffee. | + | Since my wife was out of town (Las Vegas, don't ask me why), it was my job to take the dog for a walk or the dog would take herself for a walk. When I left the house I noticed that the wind was blowing about 10 - 15 out of the northwest. So on my way to Fairhaven, I had to stop and walk the dog because she will not take a dump anywhere near our yard (don't ask me why). Sure enough, when I got to Fairhaven at 8 AM, it was pretty calm and serene looking. We took off for Eliza confident that we would be back in about 2 hours. When we got near Hale passage (Hell's half acre)we encountered that northwest wind and the sound end of Lummi/Hale passage started to get a bit rough. Hale passage is a great channel for wind so the waves were building up and hitting our beam. We thought we had it beat but somehow one errant wave knocked us off our ski and into the warm waters of Puget Sound just before we rounded the safety of Eliza island (20 more strokes and we would have made it). No problem remounting and we circled around the point on Eliza and beached in front of Shaun's cabin to be greeted by his lovely wife and some coffee. |
| The trip back home became even more interesting than the trip out with the wind blowing even harder and the waves were square with our beam if we tried to aim straight for Fairhaven. After the first refreshing swim on the return trip, we chose to head due north for a distance and then tack southeast in order to eventually get back to the cars. As we turned and headed southeast, the waves were building even bigger and when we tried to aim for the mainland, we went swimming one more time. We were both quite happy to be out there since this was giving us some necessary training that we had both obviously needed. We headed north one more time for about 2 miles and this time we managed to turn and head due east for Fairhaven without dumping it once again. However, this tortuous course meant that we had paddled 17-18 miles instead of the intended 14. We wussed out because we pictured you fresh young alpha males paddling like there was no tomorrow and we were spent. I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun. However, we did gain a bitch-load of confidence in paddling the double in rough conditions and were pretty proud of the fact that we didn't dump when the conditions got even bigger near Fairhaven.\\ | The trip back home became even more interesting than the trip out with the wind blowing even harder and the waves were square with our beam if we tried to aim straight for Fairhaven. After the first refreshing swim on the return trip, we chose to head due north for a distance and then tack southeast in order to eventually get back to the cars. As we turned and headed southeast, the waves were building even bigger and when we tried to aim for the mainland, we went swimming one more time. We were both quite happy to be out there since this was giving us some necessary training that we had both obviously needed. We headed north one more time for about 2 miles and this time we managed to turn and head due east for Fairhaven without dumping it once again. However, this tortuous course meant that we had paddled 17-18 miles instead of the intended 14. We wussed out because we pictured you fresh young alpha males paddling like there was no tomorrow and we were spent. I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun. However, we did gain a bitch-load of confidence in paddling the double in rough conditions and were pretty proud of the fact that we didn't dump when the conditions got even bigger near Fairhaven.\\ | ||
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