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<DIV>Thanks, Mark and Ken, for organizing a fun day of practice. You know
how much I hate getting wet, but I had a good time anyway. We also saw
Howard and Sharon out this morning. This was Sharon's first paddle since
her knee surgery and she was doing really well. It was a very busy day on
the water. </DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT lang=0 face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><I>A message from Barb Tomita</P>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/14/2008 3:32:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
sandmarks@ca.rr.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>6/14/08</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I got to the
Secret Beach, Ken and Barb were sitting on the sea wall looking like two
beached seals--all clad in black rubber ready for our Saturday Wet Works. They
head over to the CG beach while I got ready and when I joined them I found
Pete and Jeff Libby there to join us as well. To the side of the beach
was another, large group of paddlers getting ready to head out under the
expert tutelage of George M.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>We all headed
to Pirate's Cove and we could see a couple yakkers already there who
turned out to be the Pilchard bunch. Clearly, they were there to show off
their nifty new two-piece</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2>Superior GP's
and had already warmed up with a coastal paddle. The sun wasn't out yet, but
the water didn't seem too cold, but I quickly had to acclimate to the chill.
Barb was just getting out her face mask when it slipped out of her hands
heading for the briny deep. The briny deep only being 10 to 12 feet here, I
donned my mask hoping for a quick retrieval. Sans my PFD, I still was rather
buoyant with just my wet suit top, but managed to make it down, but the Eel
Grass in the area was too high and after a few tries we left it as a sacrifice
to the rolling gods.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>It didn't take
long for Kathy to start to show off with her new paddle. They claimed they
were still getting used to them, but Kathy showed off a real nice butterfly
roll that had her looking like a pro. She gave Ken a few hints and he was able
to do one too, so we already had people learning new skills on the day. About
this time, Ben paddled up from his launch site at NAC and joined in the
practice</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Every one kind of
paired up to work on sundry skills. H&K worked on more Greenland skills
and Ken helped Jeff try out a paddle float reentry roll. Barb and Pete worked
on reentries and I just seemed to paddle around watching. Jeff wasn't
having any trouble with the paddle float roll, so I graduated him on to my
kickboard paddle float. It helped him add a bit of sweep to the maneuver and
soon Ken was schooling him in the finer aspects of real rolling. Off to the
side, Henry was helping Kathy get set up for a nice static brace. I looked
over to see Ben swimming, the victim of a broken paddle shaft on his
roll attempt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>After a while, I
asked Jeff if he wanted to come closer to shore where I could stand up and
help him with his roll attempts. Just trying to repeat my rolling class with
Jen, I had him do some hip snaps just holding my hands and he came up rather
smartly. We moved on to me holding the back of his boat and letting him try to
roll on his own and it wasn't taking a lot of help from me to get him up. We
gave him the story of keeping his head down and after a couple more tries
he rolled up all by himself like a real pro. We figured it best he stop on a
high note.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since I was
already in the water, I worked with Pete trying out my kickboard paddle float.
He was doing well with that and we moved on to trying some real rolling. With
Henry giving advice and demonstrations, I think we got Pete moving in the
right direction, but we didn't have two new rollers on the day. Still I was
glad to see him doing well with the paddle float roll.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>By this time I
hadn't even tried a real roll yet myself. I'd done a reentry roll earlier only
to find I should have recharged my bilge pump battery last night! My roll of
late has been at the best, iffy. I asked Ken to borrow his boat and despite
the tight fit, enjoyed rolling a boat that seems meant to be rolled. Not to be
out done, Barb was showing some excellent rolling technique. Of course,
Ken in my boat didn't look to have too much trouble rolling my
barge.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>We had had a busy,
successful morning of practice and all decided to head to the Fireside for
lunch. It was nice to be on hand for someone to do their first successful roll
despite the weakest roller giving the advice!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark
Sanders</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=843504121-14062008><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
title=http://www.sandmarks.net/
href="http://www.sandmarks.net/">www.sandmarks.net</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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