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WaterTribe Meetup: kayaking and Hobie Island Sailing

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Started 6 years ago by Chief
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Chief
Coastal Vagabond

Ian Lineburger is back for some excellent coaching on how to get the most from the wind. The meetup will be June 21 with an optional overnight at Fort Desoto or primitive camping on Shell Key.

Saturday will be sailing instruction with Ian and some short loop racing for practice. Anyone interested in doing a WaterTribe Challenge for the first time will find many veteran WaterTribers who will be happy to answer questions.

Sunday is optional and will be a trip to Egmont Key for snorkeling or whatever.

Here is a link to the meetup info: http://www.meetup.com/WaterTribe-Adventures/events/179059962/

Posted 6 years ago #
danceswithwaves
Member

I'm IN !! Always a good time, no hard, fast agenda. But, good interaction with kayak sailors. Generally, good camping on Shell Key except the last time which was kind of a, how you say, cluster .... Chief knows what I'm sayin'... See you there !! Royd

Posted 6 years ago #
TriBlue
Member

This is on my calendar now... was a lotta fun last year and Ian is a wealth of knowledge... I'm going to pay better attention this year, maybe it'll sink in this time!

Hopefully I'll get to camp out on Shell Key this time with Royd and folks... that is if the water stops a risin'!

Don

Posted 6 years ago #
Chief
Coastal Vagabond

Good point about the rising water. I might sleep on my boat this year!

Posted 6 years ago #
whitecaps
Member

I love summer trips. Bring a tarp and poles. Hint here, stakes are the key!

I will be glad to offer my tiny bit of knowledge and look for tips from others, on summer tarp rigging on Shell Key.

Common Bossman you wuss out if the tide gets high. All ya got do is watch Royde and learn. Hope I can figure out how to sleep in a Kruger if all else failes. Might even bring a couple of neat lights.

toby

Posted 6 years ago #
danceswithwaves
Member

Yeah, I could not have done it last year without Chief. We, together, moved our tents about five times trying to stay above water. How I managed to stay dry, no clue. At 2am, there was 4 inches totally surrounding my tent. My Hobie TI was pulled up on a normally high and dry 2 foot shelf. It was floating at 2am. I had an anchor out so the boat was secure. A good lesson. Royd

Posted 6 years ago #
Chief
Coastal Vagabond

I just got a flash of brilliance. Just sleep on an old fashioned air mattress. If the tent floods, it'll float!

Posted 6 years ago #
whitecaps
Member

Heck in June ya not gonna get real cold anyway. Also it always fun just to look at the night if you get flooded out.

You can always get in the the boat and just paddle out if the bugs get bad, done that before.. You really get a good nights sleep the next night.

toby

Posted 6 years ago #
Sirtackalot
Member

Just checking if this is still on and who is coming. Wind watcher and myself plan on being there sat.

Posted 6 years ago #
TriBlue
Member

Dianne and I are planning on paddlin' out early Saturday morning and hopefully camping on sand key for the night.

About 20 folks are shown as going on the meetup page, probably about half will actually showup!

Last I talked to Royd he was still planning on coming.

Toby was a maybe I think (hope he comes as his tarp shelters are the best and his custom lights will dazzle ya)

I heard MicroTom and WaterLilly (now an EC veteran) might also make it again IF Tom recovers from the Texas Water Safari he is currently competing in. He and Rod are still on the river and 2nd in their class! All of the boats seem to be moving slower than I woulda expected, guess the river is runnin' slow possibly due to drought?

Don

Posted 6 years ago #
danceswithwaves
Member

Yeah, I am still on for this weekend. I will be there at the boat ramp early Saturday. Looks like I will need to swing back to the ramp midday to pick up Alison. Got a new shade tarp so will be testing it. Royd

Posted 6 years ago #
OysterSlayer
Member

I'll be there early Saturday.

Posted 6 years ago #
Chief
Coastal Vagabond

This is looking good. I confirmed that Ian will be there at "our beach" about 10:00 AM. Has anyone checked the tides? I'm wondering if I should bring my wetsuit for pajamas - you had to be there!

Posted 6 years ago #
Chekika
Member

Chief wrote:

This is looking good. I confirmed that Ian will be there at "our beach" about 10:00 AM. Has anyone checked the tides? I'm wondering if I should bring my wetsuit for pajamas - you had to be there!

Tides, anyone? Great WT attitude. Can't make it 'cause we will be headed out to the Rockies--9500' and well above the high tide line.

Keith

PS Well, we are going as soon as we sell our 2 CD Extreme kayaks (current name is "Nomad"," kevlar, integral compass, garage kept; $1500--hi vol, $1400, both excellent condition)

Posted 6 years ago #
Sirtackalot
Member

High tide is a 2' tide at 7:36 AM, low of .4 at 3PM. Tide runs through Bunces pass very nicely thank you very much!...ha

Posted 6 years ago #
PaddleDancer
Member

No stories or pics from this meet-up? Um...

Posted 6 years ago #
Chief
Coastal Vagabond

We have some photos from this meetup posted on the WaterTribe Meetup site:

http://www.meetup.com/WaterTribe-Adventures/photos/all_photos/?photoAlbumId=22743852

It was a lot of fun and a great learning experience. The official coach for WaterTribe sailors, Ian Lineberger, gave lots of good instruction and setup a short round-the-bouys (setup for upwind and downwind) race so we could test our skills. We had perfect weather and everyone had a good time.

Although most of the boats were Hobie TIs and AIs, OysterSlayer was in a kayak and racing with us. He did OK having a hard time against the Hobies for most circuits, but he kicked-butt on the circuit when Ian forbid the use of our pedal drives. He was able to paddle into the wind and surf coming back. We had to tack without our pedal drives to help us upwind.

I heard Falcon caught a big flounder on the way back so Pelican had a nice supper that night.

Posted 6 years ago #
OysterSlayer
Member

I had a great time on the water with some awesome sailors.

I learned a great deal about the details of Hobie sailing and sailing in general.

My Falcon sail should arrive today.

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