Face....palm

Soonerlongbow · October 19, 2020, 06:55:09 PM

Checked the wind: good for my intended location.
Quick shower in locally made activated carbon soap: 👍🏻
Face paint applied when I park the truck: check.
Unload the canoyak for the quick trip across to cove:

Realize that the yak paddle is now missing:

Ugggg

Backtracked to the place I went last time I had it out, 3-4 days ago and it's nowhere to be found. I have two or three normal canoe paddles but the way the seat is in this thing it's be a PIA to paddle it. So looks like I'm going to be ordering a new yak paddle.

Pine · October 19, 2020, 07:39:30 PM

We've all done stuff like that.
One time I was headed to my hunting property and when I get to my parking spot, there sits my Mick Mouse Boots right where I took them off a few days earlier.
I changed into my shoes and took off my insulated pants and heavy coat. Put them in the back of my truck and drove home.
Did I mention, it snowed about 6" the day before.

Yellah nocks · October 19, 2020, 07:42:17 PM

Dont beat yourself up too bad. I left a metal detecting hand digger i had custom made which could pry open a car door in a pinch. I left it/dropped it at a local park. Went back....gone. As I get older I am tending to lose things more often. Mental checklists before going out are a MUST!

Terry Green · October 19, 2020, 07:43:54 PM

You mean with that boat the J stroke won't work?

Dave Lay · October 19, 2020, 08:01:39 PM

I lost a bow a few years ago. I got home from hunting and was unloading my truck to see my bow was missing, I drove the hour back to where I had parked, like your paddle, it was gone.
Luckily I received a call the next day from a guy that had picked up my longbow with my name on it, he looked me up and gave me a call. Great honest guy. But honestly a left hand 62lb longbow doesn't do a lot of folks much good. Lol

The Whittler · October 19, 2020, 08:18:43 PM

Everyone knows you always put stuff right were you know it is and can find it...ya right. :-)

Soonerlongbow · October 19, 2020, 09:01:06 PM

Quote from: Terry Green on October 19, 2020, 07:43:54 PM
You mean with that boat the J stroke won't work?

The way the seat is it's super low. It's actually a yak seat in a short wide canoe. Honestly, if the seat wasn't in the way it'd be pretty easy to kneel and paddle with a standard paddle.

Soonerlongbow · October 19, 2020, 09:02:55 PM

Quote from: Pine on October 19, 2020, 07:39:30 PM
We've all done stuff like that.
One time I was headed to my hunting property and when I get to my parking spot, there sits my Mick Mouse Boots right where I took them off a few days earlier.
I changed into my shoes and took off my insulated pants and heavy coat. Put them in the back of my truck and drove home.
Did I mention, it snowed about 6" the day before.

I actually broke-in my Damascus shooting glove BACKWARDS when I was knew. I still shoot it that way. Something about that thinner material feels better.

Soonerlongbow · October 22, 2020, 02:04:34 PM

Replacement paddle is in!

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She's big! Technically a bit bigger than I need. But hopefully it will give me extra power, efficiency, and not smack the gunnels.

TIM B · October 22, 2020, 02:33:40 PM

Put some of that foam insulation stuff on either the paddle or the sides!
Tim B

Soonerlongbow · October 22, 2020, 04:24:26 PM

I've done that before with my 17' Grumman. Not so much for possibly banging a paddle while making a stroke, but for laying the paddle or other things across the gunnels, like a fishing pole or bow, etc.