(May 10) Outing #3

We skipped the Friday afternoon jaunt due to breezy conditions at the house. I went down to the lake, about 6pm, after finishing work to find that the water wasn't choppy like we feared. Bummer - a missed opportunity

Saturday morning, May 10, we start prepping around 10am. Beautiful day. I hoof it with the shell. Kathleen drives. We get in and push off from the access ramp with no excitement. Woo-hoo! Out on the water, we're doing our back and forth between points. After some individual rowing while the other stabilizes, we try to do it like we're supposed to: both rowing together.

Rowing together ends up going pretty well! We putter back and forth. It's a bit breezy but we realize that we just need to go into or with the wind. I'm working on getting the hang of turning the boat in several different ways. Once, my slow turn is too slow; I switch to the "turn on a dime" technique and then we power out of one tight situation without a problem.

Kathleen and I are much happier. It takes our technique getting sloppy before we realize we've been on the water for almost two hours. We head back in. Getting back to the access ramp ain't so pretty. After we're finally in, a different set of neighbors coming out to their dock, and tease us. Since neither of us got hurt or were too mad at the other, we can laugh.