Trip to Iowa
Well, the trip to Iowa is about over. We are in St Louis right now and will be flying out in the morning at 9:30. It will sure be good to get back home and mow the lawn… yeah right.. Looking forward to kayaking with Kurt again and getting the boat wet.
I saw quite a few kayak racks on the trip.  My old home town of about 5,000 had quite a few cars and trucks with racks on them and I saw a few SOT’s on some of those racks. I haven’t seen many racks or kayaks here in St. Louis though.
A little more on the Sea Ranger stripper: When I glassed the hull, I didn’t do any fill coats. One reason was that I wanted to save a bit of weight and the other is that I wanted to see if it would slide through the water a bit easier as in ’shark skin’ hulled boats. Not having anything to compare to, can’t really tell if the departure from laminar flow is helping any, but suspect it is. When I taped the shear, I used a scraper to even it out and applied a very thin coat to get back to transparency.
That’s about all the news that isn’t from here, catch y’all later..
Tony
J. R. Ackley
9 Aug, 2006
Hey Tony: I have been a bit lax in monitoring the KBBB in the last couple of weeks and wasn’t aware that you were coming to Iowa. I live in Iowa and would have loved for you to drop by and have a beer if you were anywhere near, and perhapse paddle together. I live in Marble Rock which is up near Mason City. It is a small town, but is on the Shell Rock River and has some good small river paddleing. If ever you get up this way again let me know. I am the Mayor of Marble Rock, but despite that we could have a welcome for you. JR
Tony
9 Aug, 2006
Hey JR! Man I forgot about all that too. I sure would have stopped by if I’d have remembered. I was pretty close tho, I was about 6 miles south of New Hartford. Dang!
Well, your just gonna have to come down here for a little winter get away and we can go paddling!
Catch ya on the next trip for sure!
Tony
J. R. Ackley
3 Sep, 2006
Tony, I guess that you were close, about 35-40 miles. New Hartford has some pretty good kayaking on the Cedar. We have been short of rain north of here and the Shell Rock is sort of low right now. Susan and I are going to try a Labor day (tomarrow) trip down the Shell Rock any way. Are you from the NH area? If so I bet that you really love the winter down there. Say “HI” to Kurt, even though he dosen’t know me any more than you do, although the KBBB is sort of an informal family. Happy Paddling. JR
Tony
3 Sep, 2006
From start of school to 4th grade, I lived 3Miles west and about 5 miles north of NH. We then moved to a farm halfway between Dike and Hudson on the Co. line. My brother lices about 5 miles south of NH now.
Don’t forget to dodge some of that snow and come on down here for some paddling..
Tony