Don't Tell McMullen....

[jsjpd1]

....but i was out rowing my Caledonia Yawl by myself tonight.

It was about a three mile circuit, checking crab pots (6 sea urchins and two flounders ) Tide running at around 3-4 knots against me for half of it. On the way back against the current one of the local tour boats actually came over to ask if I was lost and needed a tow. Oh the horror, I was still back to the dock an hour an a half after casting off.

The tour boat captain was very nice and we chatted for a bit, but it was very clear that he wasn't quite sure what I was about.

Jim

[PeterSibley]

I have a nice set of Whilly Boat plans here for you Jim.

[Gerarddm]

McMullen is, IIRC, up on the wild coast of BC braving Pacific swells amidst the islands. I think with Yeadon and possibly Hvalsoe? Big tales to tell when they get back, I am sure...

[TerryLL]

....but i was out rowing my Caledonia Yawl by myself tonight.


Jim

That simply can't be true. I've heard it so many times here that it's virtually impossible to row the large and unwieldy Caledonia Yawl that kind of distance. I'm sure when the PNW sail and oar sect return from their current outing they will convince us all that your little excursion could not have happened.

[stromborg]

I rowed out to set my pots last week (got lucky and limited!). We need a putting our boats to work thread.

Steve

[Hunky Dory]

My wife and I rowed out to watch a fireworks display in my Flapjack skiff Sat. night. People look at you like you are crazy or something when you row other than to a mooring around here. Oh we did bring the wine and cheese and crackers, Lovely evening . If I hadn't been out rowing that morning I wouldn't have seen them setting up the barges for the private display.

[hokiefan]

....but i was out rowing my Caledonia Yawl by myself tonight.

It was about a three mile circuit, checking crab pots (6 sea urchins and two flounders ) Tide running at around 3-4 knots against me for half of it. On the way back against the current one of the local tour boats actually came over to ask if I was lost and needed a tow. Oh the horror, I was still back to the dock an hour an a half after casting off.

The tour boat captain was very nice and we chatted for a bit, but it was very clear that he wasn't quite sure what I was about.

Jim

So why the frown over two flounder? Them's are good eatin'

Cheers,

Bobby

[TerryLL]

So why the frown over two flounder? Them's are good eatin'

Cheers,

Bobby

Flounders and urchins in crab pots ain't quite the same as a pot full of crabs. Jim probably has a freezer full of halibut, so why would he think about eating some rasty flounder.

[jsjpd1]

Flounders and urchins in crab pots ain't quite the same as a pot full of crabs. Jim probably has a freezer full of halibut, so why would he think about eating some rasty flounder.

You got that right Terry!

btw Bobby those two little flounders were about as big around as my hand.

[jsjpd1]

I rowed out to set my pots last week (got lucky and limited!). We need a putting our boats to work thread.

Steve

A putting our boats to work thread sounds like fun. In addition to pot duty, I've been thinking about floating yellow cedar salvage logs off the beach and towing them home.

Jim

[jsjpd1]

McMullen is, IIRC, up on the wild coast of BC braving Pacific swells amidst the islands. I think with Yeadon and possibly Hvalsoe? Big tales to tell when they get back, I am sure...

Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait to give James a hard time.

Jim

[hokiefan]

You got that right Terry!

btw Bobby those two little flounders were about as big around as my hand.

Oh... crab bait!!!

[jsjpd1]

Oh... crab bait!!!

Would have been only fair, they were trying to mine.

[James McMullen]

Wait. . .don't tell me what?

I think it's awesome that you eschew the infernal cumbustions. Them things make you fat.

[jsjpd1]

Ah.. James, I guess it was the rank my conveyance seems to garner in the octaneless club, that I was protesting. Welcome back.

btw- Shouldn't there be a trip report of the most recent expedition of the octaneless club? Enquiring minds want to know.

Jim

[James McMullen]

Jim, I most heartily endorse you rowing your CY. And it's not like I don't like them or anything. I expect that if I were usually carting around a boatload of cute wives and daughters like you, I'd need a bigger boat too. But every boat is a compromise, and having gotten to row a Caledonia Yawl and a Ness Yawl directly side by side back when I first built Dragonfly, I knew instantly that absent other criteria, I would choose the boat that was several inches lower and a whole foot narrower if I wanted to be content to row all the time solo. But don't worry, your Sparrow ranks way, way up there in terms of boats I very much like.

A trip report will be forthcoming as a collaborative effort atwixt AJZimm, Eric the Hvalsoe, Señor Yeadonator and yours truly, once the salt's been rinsed off and all the pixels processed. And you and Sparrow would have been most welcome indeed to have joined us if only you'd been a few hundreds and hundreds of miles closer.