Rosslyn Redux

Tag: Boating

  • Sundown Surf

    Sundown Surf

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    Geo Davis
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    Slightly less than two months ago, celebrating a peak-of-summer day with a sensational sundown surf. Actually, concluding a wake surf (closer to sunset than normal or advisable). Sundown Surf Haiku Wake lifting, cresting,board surging and legs pumping,surfing into dusk.— Geo Davis Champlaining Relived Today we start the first day of October. So much change from…

  • Undocking

    Undocking

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    Geo Davis
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    Once upon a time undocking referred to a boat pulling away from a dock, a ship disembarking from a pier. At Rosslyn we also use the term to describe the annual autumn removal of docks (and boat lift) from Lake Champlain once the boats have been hauled and we begin to prepare for the North…

  • Waterfront Winterization

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    Geo Davis
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    There comes a time each autumn when summer has faded and winter is whispering over the waves. Or when work, travel, something eclipses the languid stretch of fall boating and watersports. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later, and as inevitable and bittersweet as fall foliage, waterfront winterization is an annual ritual that braces us practically and emotionally for the North Country’s…