Sebago Dawn

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Here is something peaceful for you. Dawn at the Sebago Canoe Club. I am not an early riser as a usual thing, but I got an invitation to try kayak fishing yesterday. I got a ride to the club with TQ, who leaves for work at 5 am.

There was this big peachy nearly full moon setting (sadly no pix, I just glimpsed it as it went down behind some trees across the basin) and a mockingbird performing his Concert To Greet The New Day. 

 My NYC fishing record continues to be "has yet to harm any fish" but I did get to bring home some good fresh fluke - one of the experienced fishers who took me out caught a great big one and was leaving town today. So at least I got a lesson in fish cleaning - and a delicious dinner of fresh fluke and fluke roe sauteed in butter with rice and steamed zucchini. More filets in the freezer, too.

Not many pix from the day because I had my hands full with fishing gear - but it was another beautiful day out on the bay.

The Fishing Tournament that Wasn't.

I do believe that yesterday's New York Times had the best article about an event that didn't happen that I've ever read. Enjoy!

Plus Schooner Anne update - well, looks like they're going to try to keep going. Acclimatization time's over for Soanya, she's clearly pulling her own weight now - in fact, she's pulling Reid's weight, hoisting him up the mast to do the work he has to do. Winches were a really good invention - but still, Go Soanya! The main thing is re-rigging the headstay so the mast will stay solid in bad weather. Good luck out there!

Method to the Madness...

So although I couldn't resist claiming that Stevie going fishing at the Greenwich YMCA was a symptom of some baaaaad cabin fever, his apparent irrationality was actually quite purposeful. As a fisherman, and a Greenland-style paddling enthusiast, been working on on a site for kayak fishermen (and women) who, like himself, don't necessarily agree with the conventional wisdom that says that the main characteristic of the ideal fishing kayak is that it should display all the


nimble responsiveness of


one


of


these! :D :


On Sunday, he was playing around with some videos demonstrating rolls you can do without dropping your gear. The cool thing about that is that guess what - that's EXACTLY what most of those rolls were developed in the first place. Silly though it may look - I think I may see some true historical homage here:


Curious? Drop by qajaqfishing.org and say "Hello!"

Cabin Fever?

Ways to tell that cabin fever is setting in:

1. local paddling, blogging, finance analyst start generating spreadsheets to project possible shortfalls in the supply of kayak storage in the park she used to consider home base.

2: