QuixTwits – 2009-08-24
Published August 25, 2009 | 
- Yikes! Monday… OK so here we go.. First a post about those nasty hatch cover latches by CD.. you know the ones – http://digg.com/u1BK6I 07:19:49
- Then there is paddling in Madison, WI.. A bit of everything… ducks, heron, Panera Bread, cattails & cougars – http://digg.com/u1BK6h 07:22:07
- RT @kayakinstructor: @canoelover fantastic story about a customer trying to take advantage of an order gone wrong. http://tinyurl.com/mddvhj 09:53:09
- RT @Kokatat: Kayak for a Cure in BC this weekend! http://bit.ly/onYyd 10:51:35
- Ooh, referrals from the Isthmus Daily Page…must have been the bit about cougars!… http://digg.com/u1BLqu 16:25:53
Hello out there…
Published August 24, 2009 | Here’s a video called, “How to do a “T” Rescue While Kayaking”… Yup, it’s one way and we all have our variations and preferences. However, it seems to me that the old idea of sending the paddler who’s in the water to the tail of their kayak to “push down” and assist the rescuer is simply a bad idea. In my myopic little world I thought that bit had passed the way of the Dodo. Here’s why…
Hello Madison
Published August 24, 2009 | 
The interesting thing about paddling in Madison, Wisconsin, is how quickly you can go from urban water nightmare to lost in the wilderness. For the last hour or so of a 2 day Kayak Fundamentals class I ask students if they would like to spend an hour paddling in a marsh or take a longer trip though the bumper boat mayhem of the Yahara river filled with gas fumes, beer cans and oiled up, sun drenched, cougars in bikinis to get out to a big lake and nice skyline. They inevitably vote for the marsh. Well sometimes they vote for the cougars…
Off The Latch
Published August 24, 2009 | 
The instructions read as follows… “Hook the open end of the cam into the opposite strap and push the cam over,tightening the strap. Secure the cam in place with the tabbed loop. If the straps are not tight when the cam is properly secured, release the cam and adjust the straps.”
This is a wacky hatch cover latch design you’ll find on lots of Current Designs kayaks. It’s amazing really; Amazing in how quickly it comes unlatched, how complicated and counter-intuitive it is to operate, and most awe-inspiring in it’s ability to grab hold of a pfd when the paddler attempts a lay back roll. Oh, sure you can go a hundred times before the latch gets caught up under your shoulder strap.. maybe thousands… Maybe never… but if it does… Boy Howdy!
QuixTwits – 2009-08-23
Published August 24, 2009 | - Quix Blog – Rutabaga is HUGE!! I mean it may not be the, Amazing Colossal Man, “I’m HUGE!” sort of large but still http://digg.com/u1BGBu 06:17:27
- and with that I'm out of here for day two … Rescues… Poor students don't know what they are in for… he he he he! 06:18:25
- Writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster is booked for next year's Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Symposium. http://www.glsks.org/ 14:51:19
The Amazing Colossal Shop
Published August 23, 2009 | 
We get used to it of course. But if there is one thing that folks from distant lands can never imagine, it’s how amazingly large Rutabaga is. I mean it may not be the, Amazing Colossal Man, “I’m HUGE!” sort of large but it’s certainly, “plan your whole day to buy a kayak” large. It’s small and cozy when compared to DICKS or Gander Mountain and maybe comparable in volume to an suburban REI. Any way you look at it though, for a place filled with nothing but canoes, kayaks, and an insane collection of paddle related “everything” it’s pretty damn huge. And that, without counting the secret warehouse that some suggest is a small hanger stashed away on the eastern edge of Area 51.
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