Comments on: Assault on Goose Island

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:53:58 +0000

Heh, waders might not be a bad idea. :-) I’m glad we bought life vests, even though we were only in half a foot of water when we fell in. They’re just a good thing to have around.

By: Jody W.

Jody W. — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:36:23 +0000

Perhaps 2 sets of waders might be in order?

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:45:04 +0000

The last time I got out of a canoe, it was tied up to a dock, and I climbed out via a ladder.

We’ll just have to practice, I guess, but I think we need to remove any breakable objects first!

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:42:59 +0000

Hi, Seressia! That would be up there with disastrously funny first dates, huh? :-)

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:20:30 +0000

Hi, James! We don’t have a beach here, so the running-it-aground solution isn’t available.

Alas, I suspect I’ll just finally have to figure out how to be coordinated, at this late date. :-P

By: John

John — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:48:12 +0000

Lynne’s technique seems to have been the same I used when I last got out of a canoe twenty-five years ago, and produced the same results. Oh, I though I was gonna be cool when we got up to shore, and I braced both paddles in a V to hold us in place, but cool is not what we achieved. :-)

By: Seressia

Seressia — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:43:14 +0000

OMG! I’m glad you both are all right! But you have to admit, that would be funny as hell if you guys were on your first date!

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:50:09 +0000

I’d offer a suggestion, but I’ve biffed that particular task too many times myself. The only thing that’s worked is running the thing into the sand and getting out, but that’s bad for the boat (depending on what’s how far under the sand, it can be very bad for the boat!).

If some boat-getting-out-of-accomplished person has a technique to offer I’m all ears.