First extended weekend of the year = first kayaking trip of the year. At least that’s the goal. With this in mind, on Tuesday, I put out a suggestion that I wanted to do some version of the Mackinaw City to Mackinac Island / Round Island trip. It’s short notice,… Continue reading
In preparation for WMCKA next weekend, I figured I’d better get some paddling time in. I also wanted to get a bit more time paddling the fiberglass boat, which despite being the same design as the plastic one, handles differently. Saturday, I was informed that the Grand Haven Kite Festival… Continue reading
Josh and I had our first kayaking venture of the season on Saturday. Todd, who is prepping for a trip to the Aleutian Islands sometime later this summer, wanted to start getting practice in wind, waves and frigid water. To this end, we went over to the North Shore Beach… Continue reading
To me, the mark of waves getting big for surf is when there’s really no effort needed to catch them in a sea kayak. This happened often today – if I was not making a concerted effort to paddle out, the waves were going to surf me in. Josh and I both got a number of good, and thanks to the size of the waves, fast surfs. Continue reading
If you’re in the area and you look outside right now, the weather is kind of cool to cold and drizzly. That was not the case last weekend. Sunday, Josh and I took advantage of the nice day and went to Grand Haven to check and see if there really… Continue reading
Thursday Josh and I took a work trip out to visit Applinetics in Grand Haven. The trip was mainly to investigate developments in the coils and magnets we used. As usual, I’ll shy away from the details just in case people who shouldn’t see this do. Josh and I took… Continue reading
I am freshly returned from WMCKA ’09. It was quite splendid. Things really started the day before the symposium when the guest presenter Jeff Allen put on a day class on incident management. The general progression started with off the water organization and communication, on the water assessment of a… Continue reading
And, less than a week later, I have filled the existing space with crap. WMCKA‘s having their winter pool sessions now. Josh and I went to the first one on Saturday and as a result I had gathered the kayaks. I had forgotten that on our last trip of the… Continue reading
I just returned from the GLSKS up in Grand Marais, MI. It was a highly successful weekend, as judged by me. Doug and Corrina headed up early Wednesday on Doug time – meaning they left about 1:00 in the afternoon. I didn’t want to take the day off just for… Continue reading
Josh’s wife was out of town at a food science competition for the weekend and I guess most of this week. That meant that Josh had a burning desire to get out kayaking. So we did. Saturday Josh, Doug and I headed down to East Race for some man made… Continue reading