Up the Hatch!
Published August 14, 2009 | 
Strap yourself to a tree with roots
You aint going nowhere.
– dylan
This lovely bit of artwork is what you get when you take a picture of the flooded fifth hatch in your Scorpio. It’s not as if I left the cover off or anything. It simply fills (and I mean fills) with water if I roll the kayak. I don’t believe it’s the kayak. I think it’s the hatch cover. Let me tell you why…
QuixTwits – 2009-08-13
Published August 14, 2009 | - RT @Kokatat: Kokatat drytop giveaway on Watergirls at Play! http://bit.ly/xxPVm 18:42:10
- Every time I re-arrange I end up with lots of stuff I don't know how to put back! Facelift Dangerzone! http://www.kayakquixotica.com/ 18:46:16
- Quix Blog – Stern Rudder, pry, draw thingy – http://digg.com/u1AXyj (and no, I don't have your blackberry either!) 07:26:03
- Ok so where's Ben Lawry when you need to ask him a question?? LOL!! Ben? Ben? Yeah there buddy?? 08:56:48
- When I link you my blog wants to know if you're a muse, crush, date, or sweetheart… What? No "Donnie Darko's Pet Rabbit" check box? 09:17:01
- Yeah I noticed that skeg thing on the P&H Cetus as well… http://digg.com/u1AYj5 09:26:42
- I could play with NC Kayak's color picker all day… Purple and light green? Um, no. – http://digg.com/u1AYlA 09:33:32
- Coach JB tells me to Sea Kayak Handling by Doug Cooper is worth buying – http://tiny.cc/O7v1d 09:56:27
- Quix Blog – Aesop, Nigel & Boreal Shores – http://digg.com/u1AZ5R 10:26:27
- Yeah well, make your own kayak then – You can start with DELFTship free – http://bit.ly/o7H58 10:37:23
- The Big Picture – Great Shots of Greenland! – http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/greenland.html 11:10:35
- ah… talked to Ben.. I see, I see… 12:34:01
- here's the thing.. when someone describes a paddling skill over the phone you have to sit on the floor and try it.. you just do. 13:08:49
- Yup.. take my NDK Explorer to the lake and end up towing an upturned bathtub and slightly hypothermic paddler… I should know better! 17:03:30
- Underdog to the Rescue – http://bit.ly/raYye 17:47:07
Underdog to the Rescue
Published August 13, 2009 | 
If you look at this picture and guess that Derrick is about to enjoy towing a flooded, rental bathtub and a slightly hypothermic swimmer to shore, you’re right! I have a theory about that. It’s the kayak. If you paddle an Explorer by Sea Kayaking UK you will simply end up in situations where you must tow people. Even on tiny little lakes in the middle of Wisconsin. Here at Devil’s Lake State Park I’ve “rescued” enough poor holiday kayakers and canoeists that I have lost count. But it was today when it suddenly struck me… Every friggin’ time I’ve towed someone I’ve been paddling my warhorse. What’s that about!? It must be the breed. 
Boreal Shores Kayaking
Published August 13, 2009 | 
Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a Pail on her head. As she went along she began calculating…
Did I ever tell you the story of the day Nigel Dennis was late? It’s sort of like an Aesop’s Fable without a fox, crow, or nightingale to found. Now I could tell you that tale or I could send you to Boreal Shores Kayaking in Bayfield, WI., where the story is said to have taken place. Boreal Shores offers Sea Kayaking UK Kayaks, kayak gear and camping equipment at the gateway to the Apostle Islands on the southern shore of Lake Superior. Now if you go there be sure to sit in the pink Explorer when Chris tells you the tale.. and then maybe he’ll regale you with the one about when Derrick was really, really drunk and asked him to build a traveling, folding, skin boat.. I’m not sure, but I think there may be a donkey & a milkmaid in that story! – Visit Boreal Shores Kayaking Website right here.
Draw Me A Circle
Published August 13, 2009 | 
Well here’s another place you can go / Where everything flows
Looking through the bent backed tulips / To see how the other half live
– the beatles
If you ask a new paddling student to simply paddle forward then turn their kayak in motion, without further instruction they will inevitably produce a stern rudder. They reach back with their paddle on the side they want to turn, set the blade in the water, and push out. The kayak turns. I like having students do this, so I can label it and change “a thing they do” into a skill simply through the power of linguistics. It helps them start thinking all this kayak stuff may not be so tough. Heck they can make some of it up without really trying!
Construction
Published August 12, 2009 | 
Pardon the mess while I do a little website destruction over the next few hours. Every so often we need to clean out the cobwebs and come up with a fresh look. Changing the look is actually the easy part, fixing all the fiddle bits… that’s what takes for ever. So relax and enjoy a Mediterranean sunset off the coast of Sdat Yam in Israel!
Deep
Published August 12, 2009 | 
And you may not think I care for you
When you know down inside that I really do
And it’s me you need to show
How deep is your love
-bee gees
The draw is another paddling skill that can be improved very quickly simply by tweaking a couple things, namely hand position and torso rotation. So let’s look at those today.
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