Interesting,,,

to me anyways,,,,

going about the day today, domestics day, knocking down all the stuff that gets negelected through the work week, shorter wintery days, and sheer laziness on my part,,,,

and I find, , ,  

I have no desire to escape today,,,,   As in: I don’t Strongly Desire to go kayaking,,,   Could, but no pull to escape the ‘doldrums of my life’.    

Maybe I burned out that circuit yesterday,,,,  (nah, its still there,)   or

I Got my FIX in yesterday.   Had it all, flat glassy water that pushed my anxiety up (but I pulled through, literally,,, one stroke at a time.) to nice long fetch swells (not the good fetch you get on the ocean, but these were from across 3 miles of open water so were damned decent for an inland lake.) paddling up and Downwind as well as abeam and needing to use the skeg.   (and I noted yesterday, I am not ‘crutching’ on that skeg, like I did when I first got Lyssa.  The last four miles were done with skeg up, even with quartering winds.)  And of course, the usual boat traffic chaos waves.   Not as big as usual since the BIG boats are all adock and owners playing on slopes or at the Sportsball games or something: but not on the House boat.  

And I probably need a day(week) or two to fully recuperate muscles that ARE feeling a tad abused today.  Not achy, but feeling weakened and ‘noodlely’ like.  All except the abs,,, those puppies are feeling pulled tight like the cable on a winch pulling a 5-ton out of the swamps of Camp LeJuene.   When I stand up, it ‘almost’ feels like my bellybutton hits my spine, things are that tight.   GOOD!    want that ‘improvement’, I doo’s.

Ah, but you ask: “So what part of your kayak-y addiction IS itching today, Dio?”

Glad you asked,,, yes, there is a part of that addiction needing scratched but its not critical, immediate or ‘in need of rush’.  I keep looking at Lizzy and thinking,,,,,,   

Total love/hate relationship there,,,, Love the lines/hate the hatches, love the reputation/can’t stand the handling, love the speed/hate the ocean cockpit,,,,   She’s gotta go: I just don’t want to lose anything in the transfer.   I have $550 tied up in her (not including fuel costs, just boat costs) and I want that much out of her, but everytime I list her,,,,,,    Last time the ‘offers’ were so humiliating, I told the one bidder “I’d rather take a sawzall to her than let her go for that pittance!”  (and I DID,,, cut the seat pan out to experiment with how she handled with a lowered seat pan.   Didn’t change anything,,)

But that itch that needs scratched,,, wanting a LONGER boat.   17’+  (with my weight, 18′ would be a touch too much.)   WHY?!?!  Cargo space.   Lyssa holds about enough for a weekend trip but if you go for the full kit, she feels overloaded and sluggish.   That 30# I had in her yesterday was PERFECT, but wouldn’t have sufficed for a week (or more) trip.   Longer would have better cargo capacity.  In otherwords; there is no way I could use Lyssa to replicate what Mark E did in doing the Greater Loop.     

(and I found a tempest 170pro,,,  Lyssa’s bigger sibling, and its CLOSE BY,,,,,,   money I don’t has right now, but I am watching CLOSELY!)

Lizzy is 17’10” length, but the hull shape is not stable (to me) and the hatches keep most of my gear out,   And that ocean cocpit is a trap for my long legs.   She’s gotta go.

AND, “there is a kayak to be built” itchiness kicking in (its going into winter months,,,,  of course I wanna build a boat,,,)   I COULD kill both itches by fulfilling the last,,, 

still contriving scheming and wandering the convoluted paths of my brainium,,, Still need work on Buff and that is priority over addictions,,,,  Just airing my thoughts so I know what I am thinking about and how off the chain my addiction truly is.  

(a late update, I still have BJ for my camping spiritboat, so there is that, but she is not the distance covering daemon that Lyssa is. But she is a barge that can carry a weeks worth of food and beer and not change character,,,,)