Sun, 20 Jul 2014

Adding to the Fleet
Sarah has had her eye on getting Robert a boat for a while now. One of the very nice folks we run into at Assateague happened to have a kids boats that his kids and relations have outgrown.

And the most cool thing: His name is Robert. So we picked up a boat from Robert G. for our Robert B. Z. W.

Of course we had to try it out…

Robert has been in Sarah’s boat a few times so it was not completely new to him. But this boat is a much better size for him (and way too small for Sarah or I).

We took it out to Angler’s Inn and paddled around a bit.

And yes, we made him wet exit first before we did anything else.

With the super big cockpit, the end of the sprayskirt is a long way in front of him. That’s making it a bit hard for him to pull the sprayskirt off. We’ll need to work on that before he paddles anything where he needs a sparyskirt. And yes, rolling lessons are clearly in his future.

And I’m sure we’ll have time to work on stroke mechanics as well. This beats my entrance to boating by several years. I wonder if South Eastern is still around and we should work on getting him a job guiding there in a few years…

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