Another productive day of kayak building – the frames are ready to be cleaned up and oiled.
Pictures posted on my picasaweb site: http://picasaweb.google.com/mhjackson123/20090317_oregon#
After “work” I took one of Brian’s F1s to Nehalem and went for a paddle on the estuary. The kayak paddled nicely and it was great to be out on the water. I was able to keep up a nice pace and manouever well.
10 km, 5 NM, YTD 150 km
Another long and busy day at the kayka building course. At the end of the day we definitely have a kayak like thing!
I have another set of photos posted at http://picasaweb.google.com/mhjackson123/20090316_oregon
The kayak is held together by a combination of “artificial sinew” (coated twine) and wooden dowels.
Today was the first official day of the kayak building course I signed up for with Brian Shulz of Cape Falcon Kayaking (http://www.capefalconkayak.com/). I actually began yesterday as I came down a day early to help with some of the machine tool prep.
Today we assembled and fit the gunwales and finished by making and fitting the tenons that inserted the deck beams. I am making a Brian Shulz “F1” kayak while Brian is making a Disco Bay West Greenland kayak for me. By the end of the day, we defintely had things that looked like they were kayaks in the making!
After “work”, brian and I went for an exciting paddle down the river that flows by the barn – a few nice class III drops and some beautiful water falls.
Gordin, Logan, George and I set out for an afternoon paddle in Cadboro Bay. Logan was visiting from Whitehorse. We paddled out to the point and played in the building waves for a short while and then came back to Cadboro Point light where we found the keel of the magic bullet exposed at low tide. We then paddled over towards cattle point and then back through RVYC to have a look at the Magic Bullet itself (sans keel). Nice conditions – great sunshine and a light wind.
9 km, 5 NM, YTD 140 km.
I am off to Manzanita to spend a week building a skin on frame kayak with Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak. Hope to have some construction and padling reports as the week progresses!
I set out from Banfield Park around 2 PM to participate in the paddler’s rally against the mega marina project (which plans to drastically reduce paddlers’ access in and out of Victoria Harbour). The winds were strong (see the Vic harbour weather reports below), steady at 25 knots and gusting to 32, which meant that the rally was held on the beach by the Delta hotel instead of the proposed marina site. I went around the corner a few times and played in the waves and surf – the feathercraft wisper was catching waves nicely. Good speeches by Brian Henry and Denise Savoie. I was happy to see lots of familiar faces!
Victoria Harbour weather reports:
07-Mar-2009 16:00:00 W 25 32 270.0 99.9 1014.2
07-Mar-2009 15:00:00 W 22 31 270.0 99.9 1013.9
07-Mar-2009 14:00:00 WSW 25 32 247.5 99.9 1014.6
6km, 3 NM, YTD 131 km.
Heike, John, Paolo and I set out early from Caddy Bay and made our way to near Ogden Point for lunch. On the way out we had the tide and wind with us (I had the spirit sail up most of the time) but the wind was against us for most of the return journey. However, the tide turned around our lunch time so we had a little current hel on the way back too. The forecasted SE gales did not materialize thankfully and we had a good day’s paddle!
25 KM, 13 NM, YTD 151 km.
George and I set out from Cadboro Bay beach for a paddle out to Chatham. There was a bit of wind which increased during the paddle and a reasonable ebb through Baynes (note the track!). We had fun getting through the sluice. I think the wind was up to 15 knots by the time we finished.
11 km, 6 NM, YTD 126 km
At the drop of a hat, I joined the SISKA paddle that was leaving from caddy bay and we did a nice paddle out to Cadboro Point and then over to Oak Bay and back along the shore. 10 of us had a very nice paddle and the wind on the way was not too strong. I was paddling the Shadow and enjoyed having it out. There was some unusual “bumpy” water between cadboro point and Jemmy Jones and a suprising amount of swell (perhaps 3 feet) coming from the SE as we paddled over to Oak Bay. We stopped by to view the Hunter 19 (which I have now made an offer on!) and had lunch on the beach by the marina. The beach south of Turkey head was a bit surfy so we decided to go for the calm landing.
I managed to get virtually the entire Jackson fleet of kayaks out today. Jack and Mary were visiting from Alberta and Monica and Seasonn joined us for a paddle to Oak Bay marina. We had the Passat, the Shadow, the Sirocco and a Feathercraft out and all performed well. I had not paddled the Passat in a while and it was good to “renew acquaintance”. We wended our way along the west shore of Caddy Bay to Cattle point and then went over to Mary Todd Island and then through the marina. I put up the large spirit sail on the Passat and it did a good job, getting us up over 10 kph. We stopped off by the yachct sales where I scoped out a 19 ft hunter sailboat that I am planning to buy… We had to fight a fairly solid head wind on the way home and we made it back after two hours of paddling.
I joined David Spittlehouse and several members of the VSKN group (Doug, David, Marg,Christie and Marvin) to paddle out of Telegraph Bay towards Cordova Bay. The wind was a stiff 10–15 knots out of the North and it was not looking suitable for a group paddle out of Telegraph Bay. David and the others decioded to launch in Cadboro Bay and I decided to launch at Telegraph and paddle/sail around and join them. We had a very nice paddle in sunshine and calm winds in the lee of 10 mile point. The paddle/sail down to Cadboro point was exhilarating and fast!
11 km, 6 NM, YTD 92 km.
I went up to Manning Park with a group of students from the school to do a winter camping and back country skiing trip. Conditions were good - we had plenty of snow and it was not too cold. The trip was basically up the Cambie Creek trail and then up Fat Dog Creek. 17 kms of skiing altogether.
Simon and I went out for a short paddle around Cadboro bay – Flower Island, Skegness and back through the RVYC. I forgot the GPS so this is a manual track record…
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