Today, the weather cooperated, with rain holding off and light winds. A perfect day to move newly-splached Calypso from Bert Jabin's to her home on A-dock at AYC (you can see her from the Spa Creek Bridge; you can't miss her -- she is red!) Since I forget everything I learned about docking in one of the tighter slips in the marina over the winter, it helps to have kind conditions to get back up to speed.
Let the season begin!
Crab Creek Crawl, sneezing all the way.
It's starting. The surface of the water is covered with rings of green-yellow pollen, and it's only a matter of time before every flat surface in the region is similarly covered. Bring your Kleenex! I sniffled all the way from Crab Creek to Little Aberdeen Creek. Still, it was much nicer that freezing my buns off in College Park to watch my nephew, Terps 2B, Sam Hojnar, play against Indiana on Friday night.
Thanks to Rick's expert ministrations with fiberglass, my kayak is now patched and I went back out on the water. Baby steps -- I stayed in Crab Creek today. Not only was it cold today, but the water is full of gunk after 3 straight days of rain; had the patch not held, it would have been ugly. Fortunately, all is well.
Had out-of-town guests, so we took a Heron ride from Liberty Marina to Thomas Point Light and back. No one on the water today; not an especially pretty day.
Felt like I was fighting wind and tide on this cold March day. And then I cracked my kayak when I was getting back on the dock. Blergh!
Very breezy today, with choppy seas. That's where our heavy little Dyer 29 Heron excels -- she just takes on the chop like a champ, giving us a spirited cruise around the South River and Glebe Bay. Nice to get out there!
A run of decent weather meant that we could get the bottom painted and have Heron launched today. The first turn of the ignition key of the season is always a breath-held affair, but she started right up, and the still and calm weather (pre-forecast-thunderstorms) made it easy work to get her in the slip. Hello spring?
Beautiful warm and calm day.