This event highlights the crazy good waters local to where Nick Schade (of Guillemot Kayak) and Gerry Polinsky (of Sea Sherpa Kayak infamy) live and play. The CT/RI border area features great rocks, surf and is widely renowned for it’s tide races. This event will highlight Nick’s impressive self-taught skill. He’s all about the exploration and playtime. Gerry will brandish his normal barrage of instruction geared towards all things active water.
I just sent out the following email to those who had signed up for this year or expressed interest:
Hey All,
Gerry and I are super saddened to say that we are cancelling the 2020 Schoodic Sea Kayak Retreat.
We hope you are all staying safe and sane in this weird new world of ours. We're writing now to share the most up to date info we have on the 2020 Schoodic Kayak Retreat.
I often get questions to the effect of: "I have trouble keeping up with my friends, what kayak should I get?" Everyone knows that longer kayaks are faster, so obviously I should be recommending the longest kayaks I have to these folks.
In this episode I break expensive router bits and tear apart expensive plywood.
Fitting the final strips on the back deck of the microBootlegger Sport.
All that is left to strip is the back deck. I need trim to the feature line between the side and the back deck.
With the center accent well centered, it is just a matter of fitting one end of the strip and getting the grain alignment to match the other side.
Getting the centerline exactly in the center helps assure the strips on either side will be a perfect mirror image.
