rick stoehrer Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 as if there were a short way.... with the race not too far off, we wanted to paddle around just to see what it felt like. personally, i wanted familiarize myself with the entire course as opposed to the little putz arounds i've done....to see the WHOLE coast at a pop. we set out from the HS around 9:30 and rode the ebb to the mouth....came into an E/NE wind at a F2 or F3..not much at all really. we poked our bows into just about every nook and cranny we could find....ride the swell up the rock....and then back down the rock....more fun than this point to point paddling stuff.... we got around halibut point and the wind and swell were now pushing us along....LOVELY....paddle, paddle, riiiiiide....repeat. this was a blast! as we came into rockport, back beach disappeared, front beach disappeared....bear skin neck....gone....the fog settled in a thick blanket. got a little too excited riding the swells and rather than maintaining the correct heading to shoot the gap and lunch on straitsmouth....prety much ran right in towards the inner harbor...okay, could have done that better (but still, there were swells to ride!) after we lunched on straitmouth, we headed out again in the thick fog....paddling down the coast you couldn't eve see thatchers twin lighthouses...we paddled past pebble and long, past salt island and good harbor and bass rocks...all the while riding the swells down....we stopped in at braces cove (where it was FLAT, FLAT, FLAT) and had a bit more tea and met a lady walking 2 labs and a pony/mastiff named Zoey. Zoey was enormous and it was easy to see how a dog like that could defend a castle or bait a bear or pretty much do any damn thing it wanted if it was so inclined. fortunately, Zoey was inclined to be a friendly slobbery mess. we launched again and made the last 3 odd miles back to the high school in utterly not record time. but we'd seen the whole thing, poked our noses in everywhere we wanted and had a blast meandering about the cape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmfos Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 What an enjoyable post! It reminds me of a similar trip I took with my good friend Dr. Binks a few years ago. Jeez, it does seem like a long time ago but the memories are quite vivid. Thanks for sharing Rick! Jim Fessenden VCP Avocet, Aqua NDK Explorer, White on White Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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