[Paddlewise] Too big for my boat, too cool to float?

From: Natalie Wiest <wiestn_at_tamug.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:32:12 -0500
Well, not here, darn it and why else would I paddle a canoe?  No cockpit
containment!

If the Alaskans (I have a brother in Homer, so I get regular updates, like why
he's not planted his garden which has another 2" snowfall on it) would only
share some of that cool, we'd love it down here.  Our warmest spring on
record.  I'll try sending some heat your way.

My "cool" trip of the weekend was rigging a sail for my canoe, plopping my
daughter in it and in the company of like-minded friends, set off across Lake
Anahuac here on the Texas coast.  Three miles with no more effort than
ruddering.  I'll bet the temps only in the upper 80s there on the water but
plenty warm no matter how you look at it.  10-15 mph winds provided great
sport and occasional whitecapping.  Life is good on the Texas Gulf coast.

I did get a good chuckle out of the "getting too large for my skirt"
discussion.  Sigh, I too am trying to go in the opposite direction.

Natalie Wiest
Head Librarian
Jack K. Williams Library
Texas A&M University at Galveston
P.O. Box 1675
Galveston TX 77553-1675
Phone:  (409)740-4567   Fax:  (409)740-4702
wiestn_at_tamug.edu


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