If you’d been a Woverine
your boat might be a “maized.”
If a wicked woman Windsor Baron
your kayak would be chromide crazed.
Bad Company you would surely keep,
if adding a silvery streak,
to supplement collapsing rainbow
while maintaining that sky high freak.
Or if to Sweden you paid homage
in boxy Klepper some might see a,
voyage of some self-assembly
down river mile aisles of Ikea.
But how could a boat ever be an Angel
though blue ‘n gold is how’d you adorn it,
when cross ocean chop heavy ordinance you drop
a screamin’ mach speed deadly Hornet?
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My own alma mater, University of Pittsburgh, is blue and gold - had not really occurred to me til you mentioned U of M (which was my late dad’s school for both MA and PhD.)
I was surprised to find this Avatar, though listed in the catalog as 50 pounds in the glass lay up, actually comes in at just slightly over 45 on both my step-on and suspension scales. Not unusual for glass boats to have mire variance range than molded boats but that’s a pretty big one.
I suspected it was lighter when I first unloaded and shouldered it — having owned over a dozen SINKs through the years weighing from 24 to 65 pounds I have a pretty good sense of a boat’s weight by now. I’m delighted that it is relatively comfortable for me to solo carry at my “advanced” abd “frail” age. At least for now…
I admit I was amused by your comment about metal flake adding weight — would a few grams of glitter really be detectable? Maybe one of the tech geeks in our midst on the forums would be able to weigh in on whether the mass of the volume of gel coat that the glitter particles displace is a wash. Stranger arguments have graced these pages!
I am tempted to dub this new (to me) kayak “Neytiri” after the CG female protagonist in the 2009 movie “Avatar”, she of the bright blue sparkly skin and golden eyes. My bright green RM kayak is “Snow Pea” and my yellow decked Pakboat Quest with grey trim and black hull is “Chiquita” but the Avatar does not bring to mind any foodstuffs.
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Apologies to the thread for polluting the pictorial intent with our small talk. We should take it PM, I know. But then we would not be providing fodder for CWDH’s poetic ruminations, which are so consistently delightful.
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My current travels have dry boats and dry land critters… …
…but the boats are inspected invasive free. Western states have enacted inspection requirements in weigh stations, boat ramps and rest stops. Of course today, Monday, only one was open.
So YOU know where he’s been!
It is just taking a “paws” during the heat of day.
I can tell the heat index is up there when my cats look like Salvador Dali’s melting watches draped over the furniture. (come to think of it, whatever it is he painted in the middle there looks like something one of them would have coughed up on the rug.)
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A Dalliance of My Bad
(or Anthrax clocked my Memory)
In a Persistence of (time)
there needn’t be rhyme
nor for matter a reason
that cat bats towards a treason
once a blanket or duck
bent four watching up chuck
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Please publish a book. This is brilliant!
An Artist friend who has passed away was asked along with several others to do a work for a gallery Salviadore Dali was opening. It got a lot of attention, but I won’t post the details here. Just a side note one of his works was sold to Hugh Heffner.
Laurel Creek Falls on Jocassee to be specific.
Weeki Wachee after work today. It rained most of the paddle, including a typical Florida summer deluge for about a half hour. Still pretty.
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Love the mist and the tree silhouetted against the sky.
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Thornapple River, West Michigan (Cascade)
A buddy of mine touched up the photo and brought out some color
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