Rick crangle

She is only trouble because of who she hangs around with, if the shoe fits...

Sanjay, Anytime you need the help. rickcrangle at hot mail

You wouldn't be from Frost Valley in years past, Joe?

Scott and Brian did a fireman carry to allow Lesley to use nature’s facilities during the break. In this same fashion it would not be possible to carry her up the steps. Each of these large stone block steps, going up from the beach, had a width of no more than two feet, if that, and a rise of at least a foot, plus quite a distances up. Anything is doable, but choices must be made. The way we got her off the beach was to use her boat as a liter and hand float her out past the dumping surf, all of one boat length, and she then laid on Bill’s deck to pull her back to raft up, all prearranged for her safe passage out. Since it was a single wave dumping surf there was no zone to speak of. In talking to Lesley by phone, I encouraged her to write about her view of the event, because I thought that this kind of a perspective would be good for people to hear. It was interesting that her recollection of the launch was not accurate. As to stabilizing her knee I don’t know whether that was discussed, but she sat in her boat for about ten minutes as we arranged to get under way and she seemed like she was comfortable in her position, but still in pain in general. I did ask her if she felt stable and if she could let her leg lay straight out in her boat, as I didn’t think putting any pressure on it would be good. I don’t know how many people and how many times we suggested her going to the hospital. It was a honorable, and valiant, effort to take her back home and deal with all of the logistics. I think Scott, Deb, and John did a great job. Let us not speculate too much, it belittles the efforts taken.

Bethany, I think you will be walking around some day and there in a tree is a big squirrel sitting pretty is his new Barcalounger.

Chebacco Lake is a great place to practice kayak strokes and rescues. This is my sixth year coming every Thursday night from now until fall. The water is a bit chilly to start but who cares. I'm there from 5:oo til sunset. Feel Free Rick Crangle

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Bill, I have not been able to get the forms.

Hammy actor? Obviously a blue light performance. It is true that we have announced our “performances”(leadership and rescue practice) in writing to the local harbor masters and regional Coast Guard. The morning of an event I go to talk with the CG watch stand, and both verbally, and in writing, leave our plans for the day. Where we are, when, how many, where we are going, and when we will be done. I leave a contact number, or two, and that we will be monitoring channel 16 throughout the day. If we change our plans, we contact them be phone, or radio, and update, we have done this update more than once. All this is very well received and appreciated by the Coast Guard. If you don’t think others are watching and may notify the harbor master if things even look dicey, then you are wrong. On one occasion recently, we were joined by the harbor master in a rescue that was not just practice. Someone called, and the HM was there with a throw rope and float on shore. That is why we leave float plans at the putins, visible and identified, in a car and have a monitor with a float plan. We call the monitor to say we are all back safely at the end of an official club trip. If we do not call, then it is the protocol for the monitor to contact the appropriate authorities and tell them what our plans were and where to find us. I don’t know of any other group of boaters who have ongoing practice in emergency preparedness and contingency plans as this, or at least to this extent. If we are to get any respect for our willing activities, however small or limited, we must give respect to those who are looking out for us as part of their job. We go into this activity of our own volition, and with all rights there are responsibilities, actions on the water are subject to due duty. Our ancestors set to sea with a code of conduct with regard for both sea and seamen. They established guardians and risked, and gave, their lives to preserve lives, and still do. Who are we to take this for granted? We require only one skill... that you come back, and charge one duty... that all come back.

Anyone going out this weekend?

If anyone wants to do drysuit repairs (gasket replacement) at the NSPN repair day, I would be happy to help. In less than an hour you can put two new latex feet on a drysuit. Post if you what to replace or trade up one notch to latex feet. The cost difference is compared to $130 at kokotat for goretex, so around $100 for an hours work. Goretex is best, but for immediate relief this is a good trade, no down time. Rick Crangle

Eric Arthur Blair took a ride in a small twelve-foot dinghy fitted with an outboard motor and a set of oars from the Isle of Scarba to the north end of Jura. He misread the tidal tables and steered straight into the group of whirlpools so well known in that region. After losing the outboard engine to the first whirlpool they managed to row to Jura and land on the rocks, there were two young kids aboard. "'Between the north end of Jura and the Isle of Scarba, lies the famous and dangerous gulf, called Cory Vrekan, about a mile in breadth; it yields an impetuous current, not to be matched anywhere about the isle of Britain. The sea begins to boil and ferment with the tide at flood, and resembles the boiling of a pot; and then increases gradually, until it appears in many whirlpools,, which form themselves in sort of pyramids, and immediately after sprout up as high as the mast of a little vessel, and at the same time make a loud report'." Within the next two years, Eric Arthur Blair would publish under his pseudonym, George Orwell, the book ‘1984'. Well maybe big brother wasn’t watching him that day, but someone was.

There is always more to practice and room for improvement. The three star class with John Carmody was very enjoyable and helpful. If you can’t get up there this fall (still nice weather), then, make it in the spring to start yourself off right for a good season. Good luck to Suz, Paula, and Christopher, I know how hard you have practiced.

Mark, It sounds like a great trip. I wish I could have been with you guys and I had every intension to but, all I could do was to see you paddle off and try to reach you by radio. Three traffic snarls on the way through Boston and one mile long back up just before Woods Hole made it impossible to get to Bar Neck Road until 9:35. I was dressed and the boat loaded in minutes and I was trying to reach you by radio as I watched you paddle from Devils Foot parallel to the Strait. It would have been easy to catch up as you were so close. But, there were no parking spots on Bar Neck Road, or the road around the corner, I searched in vain for 30 minutes. Between the resident only parking and the two hour limit meters everything was in a tow zone. So my two and a half hour drive was very frustrating and then two more going back. It is so hard not be able to find a parking spot when there is this huge grassy lot right along the road there completely empty. Rick

I'm in Mark. What time and what putin?

Hey Mark, When I was looking into things for Jed last year for the trip several NSPNer’s took there, (I was unhappily away for that trip) I talked to one of the local outfitters there. Last season, there was a lady running a kayak tour business from a little stand at the beginning of Straight Wharf and New Whale St. I talked to her and one of the people she worked with and during the conversation about tides and currents, her friend said he was stationed at Nantucket Island with the Coast Guard for years. So this might be a good starting point for questions, he kayaks, and is CG local knowledge.