Tag: Boating
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Wakesurfy Test Drive
Caveat Lector: stream of conscious wakesurfy boat post ahead… Saturday we celebrated the end of summer with one final wakesurf. Or maybe the first wakesurf of autumn. First and last. So I suppose we were celebrating the end of one surfing season, and the prospect of an even better one next year. After it rained…
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Undocking 2023
Were back at that bittersweet bookend to summer: undocking. And it’s in especially poignant threshold this year. We pulled the docks, boatlift, and both powerboats on Friday, September 22, 2023. The last day of summer, literally and metaphorically. At Rosslyn we… use the term [undocking] to describe the annual autumn removal of docks (and boat…
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Swamped Dinghy
Summer 2023 is perhaps perfectly symbolized with this swamped dinghy photo. Swampy dinghy. Our rowboat. Our beach. Our fallen leaves steeping into leaf tea… Rain, rain go awayCome again another day.Rain, rain go awayLittle Johnny wants to play. But the rain has obeyed, hasn’t come another day. It’s come darn near every day. And our…
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Return to Re-railing Boathouse Gangway
After a hiatus spanning many months — more than half a year — Supi and Peter return to re-railing the boathouse gangway, and after three days their progress is encouraging. And the photograph above Peter is installing the post sleeves that he fabricated offsite last autumn and early winter. The railings and balusters are fabricated…
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Morning Dorying
I spent my morning dorying. It’s been far too long due to the incessant rains. Sooo many drizzly mornings this summer, but today was a sunny, bluebird morning, and the rowing conditions were spectacular.
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Post-Construction Sitework Begins
Yes, the rainstorms continue to batter us. A nice day yesterday – a welcome reprieve that permitted us to squeeze in some boating during my niece’s visit — but by this afternoon the inundation had resumed. Not super helpful on the same day that post-construction sitework begins… It’s a welcome site to have Bob Kaleita…
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Simply Messing About in Boats
It’s been a day. A week. A month. What’s the word I’m looking for? The feeling I’m trying to summon?The antonym of a humdinger. Maybe the upside down reciprocal of a ripsnorter… Good moments and even some good days have peppered the perpetual purgatory, but it’s been a test. A looong test. And this day,…
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Grateful, Part II
Another worrisome day as Lake Champlain water level continues to rise. Hoping it’ll crest soon, and we can return to midsummer jolliness. Until I can celebrate *THAT* good news, I’ll elevate my spirits with a sequel to yesterday’s “Grateful, Part I” (which suffered premature abbreviation when I ran out of time.) Peter joined us last…
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First Forays in Vermont Dory
This post began as “Maiden Voyages in Vermont Dory”, but the title struck me as somewhat tone deaf at a time when we endeavor to sidestep gender sloppiness. Especially since I’m not a maiden. Nor a bachelor. Nor, frankly, does gender matter at all. And so, “First Forays in Vermont Dory” was born. Better. But…
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Dockside Monochrome
Mercurial, unsettled weather lately. Pendulum swings. Dark and light. Sunny and soggy. Unsettled hours and days. My moody meditation is inspired by this dockside monochrome. Snapped this photo after an unsuccessful first foray into waterskiing and freshwater surfing for the 2023 season. Too rough. Susan tried. A valiant effort. Abbreviated… Today’s words and thoughts are…
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Adirondack Guideboat or Vermont Dory?
“Today,” as the cool kids say, “I did a thing.” I’ve been lusting after an Adirondack Guideboat, well, probably since the late 1970’s when I enjoyed my first rowed ride in this quintessentially ADK conveyance at the Ausable Club. During the early days of the pandemic my mind returned this timeless watercraft, as elegant today…
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Dock, Boat Lift & Friends, 2010
This morning my friend, Mark, sent me a photo snapped exactly thirteen years ago (where does the time go?!?!) after we launched the dock and boat lift for the start of the boating season. In addition to a timely hint that spring is starting to flirt with summer — a meta metronomic rhythm reminder, if…