My arms and shoulderes are screaming at me.

[Engorgeous George 2,117]

I worked out this morning, arms, chest, shoulders and back.  I bumped the weights just a touch higher.  i then went out for a paddle.  I was about 2.5 miles from my launch point when the wind switched and came up hard, maybe 35 mph in a matter of minutes.  At the same time a patch I had put in my kayak two years ago sprang a small leak.  The waves rapidly became whitecaps substantially higher than my freeboard, maybe 2 and 1/2 times the height.  I had to pull for home with frankly more than i had.  I was sinking, slowly and the water was 38 degrees.  With the wind and the waves had I stopped paddling to bail I may well have swamped so I just kept pulling with an ever lowering (sinking) kayak getting ever heavier from the water coming in.  Damn my arms have had it.

 

Time to redo that patch job.

[weepaws 3,149]

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I'm glad you survived

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