Hey Matt - a blast from the past - New Boston, October 2009.
Definitely fun times
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the notorious “look 5 rocks ahead” run 
Miss those times, that run, and the group we had running it, whether bombing the top or poling the bottom…
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Got out for a paddle last Sunday. Just 7.5 miles on a local creek, but its a paddle - the first since, I think, late Nov.
So 3.5 mo lay-off this year. Too long, but it could have been worse.
Ended the iced out hiatus yesterday on the Mid-Hudson with hust short of a 15 mile paddle. Was good to go see the neighborhood.
See you on the water,
Marshall
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Good average, especially for a 1st time out for season paddle.
Is there much current on the Hudson there?
If so, what is your upstream Vs downstream times (do you ‘gain’ as much as you ‘lose’ current-wise)?
I used to live in Poughkeepsie - before kayak, so I didn’t ‘know’ the river.
Yesterday’s jaunt was not at race pace and photos dings the pace. North with the flow was 6.5mph south against was @4.3-4.5mph. Current runs about 1.2kts flood and 1.7kts ebb in Hyde Park, NY. Core workouts only help so much. I almost teetered backwards into the water at the ramp once I got out. Need more paddling!
See you on the water,
Marshall Seddon
The River Connection, Inc.
9 W. Market St.
Hyde Park, NY. 12538
845-229-0595 main
845-242-4731 mobile
Main: www.the-river-connection.com
Store: www.the-river-connection.us
Facebook: fb.me/theriverconnection
Instagram: www.instagram.com/marshall.seddon
I have yet to get out and only know a couple of people who have. Next week is looking possible.
We had unusually warm weather a couple of weeks ago so I brought both sea kayaks home from winter storage. Then the temps dropped and it snowed. They’re now stashed on my back porch.
I prefer to do my first paddle here at home to check if I’ve lost any paddling mojo over the winter. While it’s warmed up a bit, I’m reluctant to try another gravity launch of my Fathom given the placement of my dock last fall. That bluff is steeper than it looks and I learned last spring how fast a kayak can rocket down a hillside.
Happily I’ll have help carrying it down next Wednesday, so barring rain or snow, that will be my first 2021 paddle.
We have a sledding hill two doors down where you may have to brake if you don’t want to end up in the river. One day paddling back home I decided to take the kayak sledding. Happy to say kayaks are way faster than most sleds, and easy to steer by dragging a blade. Also its great if you are overheated, because even though the slope at the water was very shallow the bow dove under and I got a wave in the chest.
I have yet to get out. Soon hopefully.
Was out today. Took a bunch of AirStreamers for a paddle on Arbuckle Creek, near Avon Park Florida. It runs through the Cyprus swamp area between a state forest and a bombing range.
Its difficult with our 86 degree temps to remember it is still cold up there.
What is a winter layoff? That is optimal paddling time. Spring is attempting to avoid t-storms…ditto for most of the summer.
beautiful time to paddle in wv; dogwood and redbud blooming, some of the smaller tribs are running, most folks still wearing wetsuits or dry suits, but head coverings and pogies no longer required
Not only is it 30F and windy here, but there’s a mini-blizzard going on right now with accumulating snow. 
Should have kept my snow tires on. Sigh.
No Winter layoff here in Texas. We go all year long, although by July it is way too hot for extended paddles, so we usually either do early morning or moonlight floats.
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I think this would largely depend on where a paddler lives. I live on Cape Cod, MA and paddled for the final time in 2020 in Dec., and paddled the first time this year in March, so call it three months off.
I’m kind of jealous about that.