Same sun, same hot water,…
and all the outflow goes somewhere.
Hot is hot. Waves don’t add much to the cooling potential July-August. Wrong coast for that. Only one big warm current and no upwelling here.
Beach play with SOT and some shade to retreat to, maybe. Go fart around rolling for an hour, maybe.
When I paddle, I mostly like to paddle. Actually cover some water. Heat makes that a chore, if not dangerous. Want to do Jake’s Loop again - mid-August? No wind?
Still hot while I go out in the evening. I do like paddling on the few quiet rainy days we get - except rain usually comes with T-Storms. We don’t really get much in the way of weather without electrical activity.
A couple slow months is a lot better than those hard water months up North. Better for my shoulder too. Cooler days are coming. Then you can listen to me whine when the water gets all the way back down to 72 this Winter.
BTW - What’s going on with the Yost?
yost
Now there is a project better suited to the fall. I have been out in my back patio sweating bullets and decided to wait a bit. I have to recut the templates anyway…should have cut the notches for the gunwales and chines initially instead of trying to do it later. No hurry…It will get done.
Paul
well glad i’m in the middle
highest on my front deck ever 78F
water always cool except the top 6 inches can get warm…and with the global warming the lake was only frozen completely over this year for one week—even the kids across the lake were cautious ice skating this year…
Jake’s loop
sure. I am game. will bring the portable water mister and umbrella
Paul
Didn’t Get To Paddle It…
since someone had beat me to it for $300. All I could do was sit in it.
The deck is lower than my Montauk/Mystic. Cockpit is large (maybe 30" long). The screwed in plastic seat was a tad bit tight. Would have to be modified with a foam masik and foam seat. There is no skeg, so the seat positioning would have to be dialed to get the right trim for the individual paddler.
I don't anticipate rolling should be any more difficult than any other smaller touring boats out there. Is it a "rolling machine?" Didn't occur to me since I was just looking at it as a potential"play boat" in rocks and waves. (Plus, how can I go wrong with a used boat for under $400...) If I want a "rolling boat", I can build my own if that were something I was interested in. What I liked was that it was plastic, it got some rocker to it and it wasn't gigan-mongous relative to me.
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Orton
Any chance of a plastic AA coming out or is this all a pipe dream?
Paul