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| - | Saturday morning paddle......\\ | + | |
| - | ==== | + | ===== Saturday Morning Paddle…… ===== |
| **Larry Goolsby** \\ | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 01/21/06 #990 | + | 01/21/06 #990 |
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| + | Only 5 of us showed for Saturdays paddle. Conditions were bumpy but not big. Erik W, had to borrow my R since his rudder broke on his V-10. As we headed south (upwind), I assumed that we would need to go slow for Erik. However, he was right in the front setting the pace. Reivers and I got a chance to toy with our new VHF radios when we got down to Governor's point (worked really well) so we went on to Whiskey Rock. There was a couple of Eagles sitting on the rock and one was singing (well, sounded like crying) and I was whistling back at him. We actually seemed like we were communicating until I fell off my boat. I didn't have a paddle in the water and it was rather bumpy, then you combine this with a lack of attention and you go swimming. The VHF took the dunking in stride and no water leaked into the battery compartment(I fell in just to test the radio). | ||
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| + | Anyway, we went back north and started catching some good rides until there was a definite change in the current. The wave frequency increased and the smaller waves were hard to catch. I looked back when we were going past the wall and I saw that Erik was slightly behind everyone. When we got past Post Point, I turned and looked back and could not see any sign of Erik. I turned and headed south (I don't really like him, it was because he was on my boat) and could not see any sign of him. I then called Reivers on the radio and asked if he had seen Erik. He said Erik was already back to FBW. How did this paddling wannabe in a short fat boat beat all these elite shells back to Fairhaven? Good thing Dean wasn't here or he would have slit his wrists. Reivers and I started making excuses for this phenomonen. We were in the current and he wasn't, he hugged the shore and caught eddys, we had a headwind and he didn't, our water was like molasses and his was like Vodka. Whatever? | ||
| - | Only 5 of us showed for Saturdays paddle. Conditions were bumpy but\\ | ||
| - | not big. Erik W, had to borrow my R since his rudder broke on his V-\\ | ||
| - | 10. As we headed south (upwind), I assumed that we would need to go\\ | ||
| - | slow for Erik. However, he was right in the front setting the pace.\\ | ||
| - | Reivers and I got a chance to toy with our new VHF radios when we\\ | ||
| - | got down to Governor's point (worked really well) so we went on to\\ | ||
| - | Whiskey Rock. There was a couple of Eagles sitting on the rock and\\ | ||
| - | one was singing (well, sounded like crying) and I was whistling back\\ | ||
| - | at him. We actually seemed like we were communicating until I fell\\ | ||
| - | off my boat. I didn't have a paddle in the water and it was rather\\ | ||
| - | bumpy, then you combine this with a lack of attention and you go\\ | ||
| - | swimming. The VHF took the dunking in stride and no water leaked\\ | ||
| - | into the battery compartment(I fell in just to test the radio).\\ | ||
| - | Anyway, we went back north and started catching some good rides\\ | ||
| - | until there was a definite change in the current. The wave frequency\\ | ||
| - | increased and the smaller waves were hard to catch. I looked back\\ | ||
| - | when we were going past the wall and I saw that Erik was slightly\\ | ||
| - | behind everyone. When we got past Post Point, I turned and looked\\ | ||
| - | back and could not see any sign of Erik. I turned and headed south\\ | ||
| - | (I don't really like him, it was because he was on my boat) and\\ | ||
| - | could not see any sign of him. I then called Reivers on the radio\\ | ||
| - | and asked if he had seen Erik. He said Erik was already back to FBW.\\ | ||
| - | How did this paddling wannabe in a short fat boat beat all these\\ | ||
| - | elite shells back to Fairhaven? Good thing Dean wasn't here or he\\ | ||
| - | would have slit his wrists. Reivers and I started making excuses for\\ | ||
| - | this phenomonen. We were in the current and he wasn't, he hugged the\\ | ||
| - | shore and caught eddys, we had a headwind and he didn't, our water\\ | ||
| - | was like molasses and his was like Vodka. Whatever?\\ | ||
| Larry G | Larry G | ||
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