{"id":3313,"date":"2014-08-10T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2014-08-11T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:06:47","slug":"a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan has a cautionary tale for us. Just as for \u201cwant of a nail a kingdom was lost\u201d, for want of a secure bow tie down my kayak was lost! Simplest thing like not making sure the excess slack line on tie down strap was properly knotted and out of harm\u2019s way became a very expensive lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Eddylines and similarly thermoformed plastic boats actually have more give and can flex a little better than glass without spiderweb cracks they still can\u2019t be aggressively bent 30 degrees to the side from cockpit to bow! (as mine was when it\u2019s bow kissed my car\u2019s hood after I ran over my tiedown.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/crushed.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3316\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/crushed-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"crushed\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/crushed-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/crushed-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Good news* for me was that it didn\u2019t happen on the LIE &amp; no one was hurt. (actually no one was even around at 5am to witness my kayak self-destruct right in front of me)<\/p>\n<p>Also good that I had such a full 1st paddling season (all winter through) and went on so many awesome trips (topped off with \u00bd dozen winter NACK pool practices) that the total loss I absorbed was still money well spent. I couldn\u2019t even begin to put a price on those beautifully scenic fall foliage paddles on the Nissequoge and Carmens rivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nissequoge-183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3315\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nissequoge-183-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Nissequoge (183)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nissequoge-183-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nissequoge-183-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Followed by cold winter paddling through Huntington &amp; Lloyd harbors with snow-covered hills all around, Regular harbor seal sightings from October til April on numerous trips to Jones Beach and OysterBay; Lighthouse trips including Fire Island, Execution Rocks, Old Field and Huntington.<\/p>\n<p>Nighttime paddles, fullmoon paddles, and most recently venturing out into the surf zone in Fire Island inlet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SurfZone-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3317\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SurfZone-27-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"SurfZone (27)\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SurfZone-27-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SurfZone-27-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just an incredible and enjoyable sport with incredible NACK people sharing their time and experience and even now offering to bring extra boats for me to keep me going &amp; help shepherd me through this temporary setback. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a title=\"Additional Pics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/z6g4xwj0h4zqthu\/AACgz6uGokalxT1qZSwF0iNJa\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">See some additional pictures<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>No regrets here at all except for the Murphy\u2019s Law timing of my mishap -just as I was leaving for the Mahnattan Circumnavigation. trip. A real Homer Simpson \u201cDoh!\u201d moment if ever there was one. So much planning &amp; anticipation. Freezing &amp; packing water bottles, fruits, snacks and goodies, charging cameras , cellphone and VHF. Preparing clothing changes and raingear, printing maps, remembering EZ-Pass, waivers and ACA card, etc, etc, etc. So much effort undone in an instant by a lazy knot come undone. So I guess for me its back to the basics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Planted-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3318\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Planted-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Planted (3)\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Planted-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Planted-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t get much more basic than the very last item on the L1 assessment: \u201cSecuring boats to rack\u201d !!! Thanks to all and hope to see you out there real soon\u2026 -Alan M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan has a cautionary tale for us. Just as for \u201cwant of a nail a kingdom was lost\u201d, for want of a secure bow tie down my kayak was lost! Simplest thing like not making sure the excess slack line on tie down strap was properly knotted and out of harm\u2019s way became a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}