builder206 Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Can I lift her skirt for ya? Only if she wants a moist cockpit. Quote
Sherri Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Can I lift her skirt for ya? No thanks. You'd just be in the way. Quote
sobo Posted May 3, 2008 Posted May 3, 2008 Verrrrrry clever rejoinder! +5 Then can I least watch? Quote
Bug Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 I live on Lake Sammamish and have three kayaks and a 16' Rebel sailboat. I come home from work and have to decide if I'm going to run, paddle, or sail first. Neener, neener. Quote
ken4ord Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yeah fun stuff, but I decided it would be a good activity when I am old my body can't take the climbing, freeriding and snowboarding. Quote
Dechristo Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Yeah, similarly, I'm thinking of increasing involvement in the activity. Quote
AlpineK Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yeah fun stuff, but I decided it would be a good activity when I am old my body can't take the climbing, freeriding and snowboarding. I used to hang out with a bunch of folks who did a lot of whitewater kayaking. I did a little bit and yeah it is fun, but skiing and climbing really held my interest. I've never sea kayaked, but I have spent some time in the ocean in a canoe. That's a lot of fun too, but it ain't climbing. I might do more of both when I get older, but if you want to get good and do the crazy stuff you need to start younger and stay focused. That's true of any sport. Quote
mattp Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I'm not so sure that sea kayaking is really about "getting good and doing crazy stuff" so much as whitewater kayaking or climbing. Surfing in a kayak is kind of a specialty thing, but most sea kayakers are out for sights and sounds as much as the activity itself -- kind of like backpacking as opposed to mountaineering. In some ways it is about NOT doing crazy stuff - it gets scary and dangerous when you start hitting rocks on a rough shore landing or the wind and waves come up on an exposed crossing. Quote
AlpineK Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Try landing or taking off from a small island with big breakers..it's crazy and requires talent. Quote
builder206 Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I took a surf landing class. You are right Feck, it is special stuff. I'd rather try to land against sharp rocks in a bobbing tide than to try to come ashore on a hard sand beach in the surf. You can time yourself in a bobbing tide but your boat won't float in foam. Quote
sk Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yeah fun stuff, but I decided it would be a good activity when I am old my body can't take the climbing, freeriding and snowboarding. thats where i am right now. i need to find ways to have fun that will not cuase me horrible pain. Quote
builder206 Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 need to find ways to have fun that will not cuase me horrible pain. Skydiving! It's like floating on air, and with modern ram parachutes you land at a walking pace. Quote
JayB Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yeah fun stuff, but I decided it would be a good activity when I am old my body can't take the climbing, freeriding and snowboarding. Yeah - I've been thinking that flatwater and/or sea-kayaking would be a cool thing to do with kids once they enter the picture. In the meantime - Man! - the rivers in your former home-base delivered up the goods this weekend. I heart Maine. Quote
mattp Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 I suppose we could debate whether this or that scenario is more difficult or dangerous, and clearly there are a lot of skills to learn either way. But most of the time I was able to find a reasonably sane landing even on the outside coasts of the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island. With some notable exceptions, the places I went usually offered some kind of protected cove or a sneak landing behind a sea stack or something within a mile or three. On surf beaches, too, I could usually avoid total ruin by waiting for a big swell to come by and then paddling like mad to try and hit the beach just behind it and before the next one came crashing upon me. If I ate it, I was generally able to hop out and drag the boat on shore. Sometimes, though, it DID get kinda scary. On the outside coasts, I always chose favorable conditions and told myself I'd park the boat and walk home if things got too rough. Quote
mattp Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Jay, there are a bunch of cool places for relatively safe and sane sea kayaking. The Broken Islands, for example, are quite popular with families. Quote
hafilax Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 My roommate and a friend just scored fiberglass sea kayaks for $500 each from the MEC gear swap. Looks like I might get to give it a go this summer. Quote
JayB Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yes you are. Glad to hear that someone else on the board has discovered how to enjoy the flip side of the hydrological cycle. Maine is no WA, but it was definitely delivering up the goods on that front this weekend. So many beautiful places.... Quote
ken4ord Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 I discovered kayaking last weekend. Yeah fun stuff, but I decided it would be a good activity when I am old my body can't take the climbing, freeriding and snowboarding. Yeah - I've been thinking that flatwater and/or sea-kayaking would be a cool thing to do with kids once they enter the picture. In the meantime - Man! - the rivers in your former home-base delivered up the goods this weekend. I heart Maine. Yeah man spring time river running is a blast there. I used to do some open boating, pretty much inbetween seasons skiing/ice climbing season and mountain biking/rock climbing season there was a short paddling season. Quote
kevbone Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 "Every drop between Skoonichuck and the take out has been run, and a few drops upstream as well. The most notable of these upstream descents occurred during the filming the local video 'Breathe', when Isaac and Jordan Priestly hiked six miles up the creek and claimed the first descent of a fifty-five plus foot waterfall far above the regular run." Isaac and Jordan are brothers of "beaconben" who posts on here.....these crazy mother F*&^*ers have first descents all over the northwest.....including Eagle Creek Quote
Dechristo Posted May 6, 2008 Posted May 6, 2008 Here, you performed your first decent in Mexico. Quote
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