http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/11/preventable/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/11/preventable/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:39:04 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=6053 As I write this 16 year old Abby Sunderland is floating somewhere in the Indian ocean on a sailboat without a mast.  Apparently she’s fine out there and will need to hold out  another 24 hours or so for rescue.   Here in Wisconsin, 9 year old Sofia Khan of Chicago was not so lucky.  The [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/11/preventable/feed/ 5 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/10/back-to-point-beach/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/10/back-to-point-beach/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:59:12 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=6046 Maybe I'm wrong. I often am, but it seems to me that fear of liability is knocking the piss out of social paddling. What have we become when finding neighbors to paddle with entails filling out a form and sending ten bucks to the ACA for the privilege?]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/10/back-to-point-beach/feed/ 6 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/01/looking-for-mr-goodwave/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/01/looking-for-mr-goodwave/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:39:40 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5999 “Maybe there’s something over there!”  Nope.  The running joke of the weekend was that the most recent 1 footer to go under our hulls must have been at least a “4″.  In the end, for students looking to upgrade their coaching level to an L4 the weekend was pretty much a wash out. As a [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/06/01/looking-for-mr-goodwave/feed/ 2 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/08/27/visualize-man/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/08/27/visualize-man/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:17:55 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=4944 I've got a phone conference with a client coming up in about an hour and all sorts of other businessy bits to deal with today... so all you get for stopping by today (at least for now) is this photograph of my Rockpool Alaw Bach waiting to take me on an early morning paddle up the Lake Michigan coastline toward the Point Beach lighthouse. Sometimes a photograph is almost like being there... sometimes a photograph just clarifies where you really are. ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/08/27/visualize-man/feed/ 1 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/06/25/kayaks-cemeteries/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/06/25/kayaks-cemeteries/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:05:53 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=4366 I'm still catching up on photos from the last couple weeks. I've just uploaded a gallery of images from Kayak Week in Two Rivers. I'm sure you know by now my eye gets drawn into the strangest places sometimes. On the way up we were detoured through this little town with the most dramatic of little cemeteries. The Wind farm in the background just made it seem all the more surreal. And then there was the "World's Biggest 6 pack".. Distractions, distractions!!!]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/06/25/kayaks-cemeteries/feed/ 0