A dogs life:
A dogs life:
... than I have lately, but that’s ok. My time will come. Hopefully anyway. Especially since my favorite season is upon us.
So just in case you were wondering why you hadn’t seen much from me lately, it’s been all too much about the work. Especially in the absence of much weather that I can relate too. It’s been fairly bleak in fact. Not even much for skatesailing and the sandsailing I got, well, apart from that one insane sunset minus tide sesh at the Cape a couple weeks ago, has been been far from satisfying. After a couple fairly epic jetty sessions the first Tuesday and Wednesday of the month, we went nearly four weeks without any wavesailing of note save a mercy sesh at the Jetty on the 16th.
Just to rub a little salt onto the pain, it’s been firing on Maui and Hatteras just had a couple good solid days of 3.2 and beyond. Sure the Banks were heavily flooded out but hey, I think the Stormchase crew really blew it not going for that one. As did I. And Maui’s been pulling me too. Especially considering how bleak the local conditions have been. I’d like to trust things are getting ready to turn around, but wow. That was the worst stretch I’ve seen out here. Ever. Which perhaps isn’t so dramatic considering I’ve only been living here year around for five years now.
On the bright side, I’ve been healing all the tweaks and the gear hasn’t suffered any. Even got a whole pile of work done. And the new secret photographic weapon is almost ready for testing. While everyone that’s seen it so far seems worried for my safety, I’m confident the results will be far worth any risks incurred.
But then on the dark side, hearing about Corwin’s death kind of snapped me out of what had been a marginally depressive state and put me onto a seriously more thoughtful though even darker groove -- for lack of more descriptive words. Hey if you’re into reading some really beautiful and heartfelt sentiment about the man, see a memorial site for him. A net search will give you an idea what he’d been up to if you hadn’t been keeping up with his latest projects. Yeah, the sense of our collective loss really has been crushing.
Sheila’s been having way more fun ...
11/1/12
You know the sailing’s been bleak when about the only action shots I have to share are of my dog. And she’s definitely getting better air than I have lately. Wooof.
The bonus photo section is from Retz creek on the 30th of September. It was the last time I did any shooting and might give you an idea how long it’s been since we got the crew together for a sesh. Sure there were a couple sweet Jetty days right at the beginning of October but I missed getting any shots of that for you. Was too busy trying to catch every single wave that I could. Good thing too, especially considering it was about to be mostly shut down for nearly a month.
So that’s Kenny going for it on his new Quantum. Then Jason on the slash down toward Cole Point and Jeff working out on a smooth one.
Here’s the long view to the south of Retz looking past the channel and down toward Cole Point. Too bad there isn’t better access to that break because it’s looking really good down there a lot.
And this parting frame is from the last day of October on the north side of the Rogue Jetty. Pretty good fun and madd beautiful. Everything from sunshine to pelting squalls. Just wish I’d brought my 4.2 (deja vu?) because I could have gotten another fifteen minutes of sailing right up until it got dark if I had. They totally came through on that gale warning and it was blowing to fifty early that evening.
My October stats:
So I ended up with seven days with some surfsailing, though only four of those brought with them much in the way of satisfaction or progress. There were a couple more days with sandsailing and just a couple more where I consoled myself with some skatesailing.
Perhaps I should extend another apology I didn’t get you more in the way of photography but I’ve been pretty distracted of late for sure.
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