Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, a bunch of us paddle to Little Misery Island to hang out and share leftovers. Sometimes we manage to get multiple pods from different put-ins.

The Manchester to Misery is a short trip, firmly in the level 2 category for distance. The Marblehead to Misery is quite a bit longer and exposed with long distances without bailouts. It is a high level 3 trip. There is also the option of launching from the Greasy Pole which is less exposed, but involves paddling over 16 nautical miles total, a level 4 for distance. I am also considering breaking with tradition a bit and leading a pod from Obear Park in Beverly. This would be a level 3 for distance without the exposure.

Please respond here with your interest, especially which trip you are most interested in. If you don't want to post publicly, you can send an e-mail to me at dee dot hall at verizon dot net. If you are a paddler with some leadership experience and are interested in leading a pod, please let me know.

The water temperatures are below 50 degrees, which means that we are firmly in drysuit season.

I was just talking with Patty (on the way home from the Iceland/Greenland slide show at ERBA) about the fact that no one had posted anything about our traditional paddle.

And, about how the full moon falls on that day. Here is how it looks:

Sun Set: 4:15pm

Twi: 4:46pm

Moon Rise: 3:56pm

Moon Set: 6:42am

Full Moon: 3:08pm

Any interest in doing this trip a bit later than usual to watch the moonrise and paddle back in the twilight? I'll probably leave from Manchester Harbor.

Liz N.

If this turns out be a late day event I would be able to join you folks. I am putting my mother on a plane home that day. Perhaps someone else would have similar aspirations who would like to join me.

I fly back to Manchester at 11 that day, so any time after that would work for me. Count me in if it's a late-day paddle.

kate

I am putting my mother on a plane home that day. Perhaps someone else would have similar aspirations who would like to join me.

Bob: I'd love to put my mother on a plane home. ;-)

>Any interest in doing this trip a bit later than usual to

>watch the moonrise and paddle back in the twilight? I'll

>probably leave from Manchester Harbor.

What a great idea!!! I'm definitely all for it.

I'd love to join you from Manchester, especially with a full moon.

I would like to join as well for the post T-day paddle--later time for the full moon paddle--splendid--les

At the Cold Water workshop some of us talked about meeting at Cocktail Cove on Great Misery at 3:30 PM.

>Sun Set: 4:15pm

>Twi: 4:46pm

>Moon Rise: 3:56pm

>Moon Set: 6:42am

>Full Moon: 3:08pm

How do people feel about paddling back in the dark with this forecast?

MARINE:

Thu

SW winds 15 to 20 kt...decreasing to 10 to 15 kt in the afternoon...then becoming W 15 to 20 kt. Waves 3 to 5 ft. A chance of showers.

LAND:

Friday And Friday Night: partly cloudy and blustery. Highs in the mid 40s. Lows in the mid 30s.

Hopefully the forecast will be wrong and will will have a gorgeous full moon night. :-))

Liz N.

I will put in with Liz.

I'm interested in going on this trip from the beverly put in if the launch time is in the early afternoon

Fri

W winds 20 to 25 kt...decreasing to 15 to 20 kt in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 5 ft. Fri Night

SW winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.

UGH. I am going to make a late decision on participating.

Saturday is looking a lot better:

Sat

S winds 10 to 15 kt...becoming se 15 to 20 kt after midnight. Seas 1 foot or less...then 3 to 5 ft. A chance of rain.

Liz N.

seems i won't be making it to this paddle after all,

i have to get my windshield fixed on that day so my truck will pass inspection.

If its transportation you lack we live in Beverly.

Tomorrow's forecast does not meet Liz's and my criterion for fun. Bob, Liz, and myself will be at the Manchester boat ramp on SATURDAY at 1PM. Some sort of light is a coast guard requirement after 4:12PM (sunset.)

-Dee

I am almost positive that it's required that you put her in and not on, the plane. Even with discount airlines, the cheapest seats available are IN the aircraft.

Just a heads up. Don't want you ro get in trouble with the authorities once you started duct taping her to a wing or something.

The python version would go something like....."Bobby, this doesn't look safe" "No, no...this is fine ma. People do it all the time." "okay...a little more...and...snug?" "great...see you at christmas then, off you go."

Hope you had a good thanksgiving!

Is anybody doing a trip on Sunday? I have to work on Saturday but was looking forward to being on the water this week.

Thanks -Jason

>Tomorrow's forecast does not meet Liz's and my criterion for

>fun. Bob, Liz, and myself will be at the Manchester boat

>ramp on SATURDAY at 1PM. Some sort of light is a coast

>guard requirement after 4:12PM (sunset.)

>

>-Dee