I’ve been spoiled

Glass smooth water!!! Not my favorite type, but photogenic as all get out. (The ripples are from Selkie)

And the songs of Faeries n elves to send ya into a reverie: the water talking to itself as it heads to a retirement until its recycled as rain.

But my post is about me having become spoiled. Yeah, I’m spoiled. Been paddling Blue Jean for over a month now and plopping my butt into Selkie,,, totally different personalities. I feel stable as a grounded dock in Blue Jean, no matter what the water is doing, or even NOT doing,,, Selkie? nottasomucho,,,, she’s stable, but her primary is nearly non-existent, and I feel twitchy and that starts a positive feedback loop that leads to anxiety. Its not the fear of capsize, more like a ‘no control’ of her position in the water. Her secondary stability is a rapidly rising ramp so the further she tilts, the more solid she feels (up to that tip-over, buts its way up that ramp).

I think a lot of it has to do with my building her to accommodate other paddlers. Now she doesn’t “hug” me like B-J does. I guess I can add some side padding, but her beam is wider by 2″,,,

I’ve been spoiled by an intimate boat,,,

Lol. The quest for the ‘perfect boat’ never ends,,,,(B-J weighs almost 80# empty, her only ‘fault’ IMO.)