2026 - Day 1

Trip dates: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Trip length: 
1 day
Type of watercraft: 
Kayak/canoe/rowboat
  • Not the dead's lid

Man, I struck out last year.  A palty 80 days!  OK, such is life.

AFTER a having the flu for the holidays, I hadn't been down to the boat in quite a while and I was worried about the windy and gale conditions that had occured during my protracted illness.

Turned out everything was fine, very little chafe on the lines, but I did install a bit of anti-chafe material at selected pionts should anything in the 30-50 mph range show up in the next month or so...I don't think it will but I mean, it is winter.

Got a super nice paddle in though! Very low tide and I did see something of interest on shore this time.  It looked like the lid to a burial device had become exposed on shore!  Then I thought, who the heck would bury someone that close to the water's edge?  Turned out it was just the lid to a dock box or possibly a cockpit locker on a large boat.  Fine with me, I needed a dead body like i needed another bout of some god-awfu winter pathogen. 

2026!  Let the games begin!