SZihn
Paddler
Well, I just finished my longest afternoon kayak trip to date. I try to go every Sunday after church.
I left at the Jarvis beach (small waterfront piece of land Beau Jarvis let's me use to kayak from) at 1:00 and paddled to the marina up by the dam on the north end of Boysen Reservoir I got out out of the water at 6:48. I measured it with calipers on my 7.5 minute series map. It was 13.75 miles and the total time was almost 6 hours. I did make 3 stops for about 10 minutes each time, so the actual time spent padding was close to 5.5 hours. That made the average about 2.5 MPH. Not great but not too bad I guess,
The wind was about 8-12 MPH for about 1/2 of the trip and directly to my 12:00, so I am sure the wind and waves slowed me down to some extent. I was lucky because about the time I was 1/3 mile north of Tough Creek Camp Ground the wind slacked off to about 2-3 MPH. My friend Jeff from Church was fishing up there so he picked me up and drove me back to my truck.
I read some people post speeds of around 3.5 MPH but I am not going that fast for that long, that's for sure.
I can and I have done 3.2 MPH for 1 hour, but I doubt I can do that for much longer than 1 hour How some folks go 3+ MPH over a full day's paddling is amazing to me. Maybe I'll get faster some day if I live long enough.
I left at the Jarvis beach (small waterfront piece of land Beau Jarvis let's me use to kayak from) at 1:00 and paddled to the marina up by the dam on the north end of Boysen Reservoir I got out out of the water at 6:48. I measured it with calipers on my 7.5 minute series map. It was 13.75 miles and the total time was almost 6 hours. I did make 3 stops for about 10 minutes each time, so the actual time spent padding was close to 5.5 hours. That made the average about 2.5 MPH. Not great but not too bad I guess,
The wind was about 8-12 MPH for about 1/2 of the trip and directly to my 12:00, so I am sure the wind and waves slowed me down to some extent. I was lucky because about the time I was 1/3 mile north of Tough Creek Camp Ground the wind slacked off to about 2-3 MPH. My friend Jeff from Church was fishing up there so he picked me up and drove me back to my truck.
I read some people post speeds of around 3.5 MPH but I am not going that fast for that long, that's for sure.
I can and I have done 3.2 MPH for 1 hour, but I doubt I can do that for much longer than 1 hour How some folks go 3+ MPH over a full day's paddling is amazing to me. Maybe I'll get faster some day if I live long enough.