Satyrday wind-down

7 miles today,,,   dead flat on the out, choppy and chaotic on the way back.   I did have one ‘run in’ with a fast mover that I actually enjoyed.  He was cruising pretty good and I guess realized at the last second he was ‘getting too close’ and dropped off plane.   He hand signaled that he was passing on my port quarter, and I gave him the thumbs up, and he powered up.  BUT, he wasn’t on plane, bow high, and he was pushing mad water forward, and his bow/stern wake were nearly as tall as me coming at me abeam.   I was a giggling fool and yelled out a thank-you to him,,,, He looked shocked!!!!   I would say most of the kayakers he has ran into on that lake would have been cussing him blue, if they weren’t swimming at that point, or both,,,   But  I rode those waves and had a blast doing it, and wished that there were more than the three big’uns I caught.   

I did get my action camera working again (RTFM fool!,,, RTFM) user errors of course.   Nothing wrong with it, but battery life is not the greatest.   About two hours worth, and ALL of it on the way out when the water was mostly glass or small frog ripples.   Should have held off for the return trip and caught all that great wave action I was playing in.   Oh well, live and learn (and you really can’t predict whats coming and just key the camera,,,   When it hits you, you’re busy,,,,).  So I have two hours of rather boring stuff with about 3 minutes of cool shots of interesting rocks and boat traffic,,,  I did more crossings of open water today than I usually do since the entire time out, I saw a total of seven boats in transit, and a handful of bassboats trawling the shores.  One of those crossings was over a mile.     

Saw three other kayakers out, but they acted like I had the plague or something and took off across the lake before I even got close,,,, And they weren’t paddling,,, all sit on top fishing kayaks and they were motor driven,,,  A 10# thrust trawling motor will move a kayak with authority,,, not my pidgin, but to each their own.

And now I am home, Lyssa is on the porch in her cradle, and BJ is now on the Buffalo.   I tried loading Lyssa for winter kayakamping, and she just couldn’t hold it.  The rear hatch was squeezed down and ready to pop,,, And I didn’t even try to put my zero degree bag in, just the summer weight stuff, but ALL OF IT,,,, no go.   

But that’s ok,,,  Lyssa has a small leak into the cockpit (I have my suspicions of what) and I need to correct that anyways, and if she is ready for transit, I can’t do that.     I do know it is not the skirt, that was my first thought, but when I hit the halfway point, there was water in the bilge, but not the seat, and if the skirt were leaking, it would have filled the seat first.  Its not much, maybe a half pint of water by the time I hit the take out, but its there, and it does accumulate.   No hurry here, she is on the porch for at least a few weeks, and the week I will be working on Buffalo, there will be NO KAYAKS on her at all,,, don’t want distractions,,,, (like walking around back of truck, not paying attention, and whacking my skull into one.)