We're still moving a few posts from our old site over here...this one was from way back - originally posted on March 6th, 2010. This was right when we got our first kayak and way before we moved aboard Kingsley. Did we know what we were talking about? Barely! It's fun to look back even a couple of years and see how far we've paddled and how much we've learned! ~Paul ETC 3/6/2010
Good Saturday to everyone, This morning Amber had a dentist appointment...her dentist just happens to be on the waterfront, just minutes from a popular Seattle beach on the Puget Sound - Golden Gardens. This also turned out to be a great place to launch the kayak for a couple hours of paddling...which turned into a couple hours of just sitting and watching all of the boats. According to a dude on the beach, every Saturday morning there is a sweet sailboat race going on out in the Sound. Lots of folks come to the beach to sit and watch the sailboats rounding the green buoy, turning back South towards downtown and the Elliot Bay marina (I'm guessing where another other buoy is). Hmmm...does the Yacht Club of Seattle put this on? Here is a link just in case: http://www.seattleyachtclub.org. The best part about the inflatable kayaks we have is that it is so easy to pack them up and throw them into the trunk of a car. I've got my setup down to about 10 minutes - it's really about inflating the thing, putting the four-part oar together, and putting the leftover gear in the backpack. So, off I went, heading out towards the green buoy, snapping photos like crazy.
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I took a little kayak-sail the other day, just after most of the snow had cleared. It has taken me a few runs to figure the sail out - it seems the days I go out with the sail the wind is blowing from the wrong direction (which is pretty much normal in the Pacific Northwest!). This sail is a downwind only spinnaker so you go where the wind goes...in this case it was directly at Shilshole Marina.
As I type this post aboard Kingsley right now (9 pm Pacific) the winds are gusting to 40 knots...not the best kayak-sailing weather...actually not the best of anything weather as we get tossed back and forth up against the dock! ~Paul ETC When I went to bed last night I thought I'd brave the Seattle snow and take the kayak out. Well, the wind chill of 19 degrees pretty much made me reconsider. Maybe tomorrow. I did take a walk to scout it out and snapped a few photos...along with the ones I shot earlier at the boat.
~Paul ETC It turns out that the Northwest polar bear plunger is not as elusive as the Northwest sea caroler. We could see smoke signals and hear them from s/v Kingsley on New year's morning...so off I paddled to check it out. It was actually the perfect kayaking day - fairly warm (50) with no wind on the Sound. It begins! It (quickly) ends. ~Paul ETC
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