No Fools Post this

But  I would be a fool to head out onto a lake today, solo.   The winds are gusting to over 50mph today.   I drove out to Chenoah lake (pond IMO), mostly to see if the water lillies are blooming (nope) but was shocked to see waves with whitecaps  crossing that lake.   This lake isn’t much more than a 1/2 mile in length and yet the waves were piling up before the midpoint. And this lake is not shallow, waves on this one. piling up like that, are tight in frequency,

Cannon Creek or Laurel will be standing waves,,,

NOT something this krazzee Redneck wants to tackle solo, even if his boats are more than capable of handling them.   With the way the wind is blowing, way too easy to get pushed off course so far I would be forced to shore away from my take out, until dusk when the wind MAY die down,,,  When you are the motor of your boat, you respect nature in her furies,,,

and I am sitting here in Buffalo watching how that wind is hitting the water,,,  Its like downsqualls; one minute pushing across the surface, the next straight down from the sky and waves going in all directions….  Thats capsize wind.  The same sort of winds that caught me in Duh!kee 3-4 years back. Then it meant a swim, now, I would say a cointoss: swim/roll.  And I recall tryng to roll while a wind was pushing my kayak across the lake: three tries, three fails.

so no, Today I sit this one out, no foolin’ for me.

UPDATE: I headed over to Cannon Creek lake after posting this. The waves were rolling up the boat ramp. I have launched in worse, but not with the winds hammering down the way they are today. Fair steady at 15 with HARD gusts to 50 plus. Here at the house, I saw my WindGenny go into furl mode. I have never seen that before, and just glad as hell the mechanism still works after all these years up there. Don’t want to see genny blades ‘explode’.