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 by Grand Haven to have [...]
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.
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 were 3-5ft waves. We got [...]
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 boats with us, so afterward, [...]
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 situation and formulation of a [...]