Well boys and girls, its that time of the month again. We're paddling  (on the second) Thursday, June 10. This will be the first one that Jo Jo has missed since we started last year. She's doing ground support for the TWS!

meet at 530 pm 
Sherman Beach to Greentree Park
no boat or gear requirements
Beer and wings at TJ's afterward

Hogan
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HoganHaake wrote on 06/14/10 at 07:18:28:



I was gonna come but had to work @8pm. always somethin on thursdays

The August Sunset Race is on!!!  The Meramec is slowly coming down to its normal level.  There is no current whatsoever.  I went out for a run last night and watch some partiers kill the engine on their big 'ol boat and just float for a while.  They were only a few hundred feet away from where I left them an hour earlier. 

We will gather again at Sherman beach at 630.  I will shuttle people up from Greentree since I have to work till 645 and can get to Greentree by 700pm. 

Meet at Sherman Beach to dump boats off
Shuttle to Greentree by 7
race starts when we get back to Sherman in My van
10 miles race
2 dollar entry fee-winner takes all
Beer and wings after the race at TJ wings.
Call for info

Love
JoJo
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JoJo, I am in!!! See you at Sherman Beach at 5:30!

Oh!  I am so excited! Our next Sunset Race is in 3 days and I have been scouting the 141 wave to determine the best wave to run it...I start at Greentree and feel the anxiety growing in my tummy all the way upstream to 141 where the train bridge and the 141 bridge block my view of the riffle. 

I see the water is down so the sandbar the juts out of river left for 3/4 of the river's width is exposed.  A fisherman is casting his line  just off the sand bar shore...I pass him-probably looking like a fool craning my neck to see what is around the bend.  I literally tippytoe my tippy yak around the bend to find the voracious man-eating wave....I chicken out.  I am not pulling another pucker muscle over that thing.

I jab in the right rudder which takes me to a channel that seems to be new.  It cut the sandbar off from the river left shore...I guess that means the sandbar is really and island, huh?  Plowing up the shallow channel I make it to the head of the mouth where I can swing left and get a peek at the wave from upstream.  It is not there...Nothing.  I sail down the river right channel to find nothing but a mild whirlpool.  I am bummed.  I wasted how much adrenaline on that.  Sartori, could this be the end of your surf wave?  It has been a popular park n play spot for playboaters for years.

Next time I go it'll probably be Killer Fang Falls and I won't be ready for it. 

Sunset Race
October 14
Meet at Sherman Beach at 530
10 mile race to Greentree Park
2$ entry fee winner takes all
Beer n wings afterwards
call ahead to let me know your coming
Shuttle bunnies needed
JoJo
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I'll be there.

Ohhhh.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid.  I thought a rock in the current just above a bridge pillar, after a 1 foot riffle was bad...now that I have actually seen said "rock" in the daylight at very low water I am really really afraid.  The good news is...It isn't a rock.  Nope, there is no rock just downstream of the 141 riffle.  As the matter of fact, there is not 141 riffle either...it is gone now.

The bad news is this interruption in our peaceful race is a jagged mass of steel with multiple layers of metal poking out at odd angles.  It appears to be rounded with compartments.  Has anyone reported a missing aircraft in the last couple of years that has never been located...or perhaps a car flew off the 141 bridge a while back.  Or an asteroid.  Maybe it is a steamship that sunk in the 60's.  No, no! The Betty Ann steamship sunk about 5 miles downstream and still pokes out of the water because no one cared enough to haul her rust butt off.  This thing is terrifying and I think of how many of my friends have actually RAN INTO the thing with their boats. 

Local paddlers, now is a good time to go to the bridge and look for yourselves.  With water being low the only way to run it is downstream of the Asteroid and upstream of the pillar.  Plenty of room but you better get your pucker muscle in shape. 

I will start wathcing water levels more closely to determine the danger zone. 

So, anyone want to race next Thursday Nov, 11.  It's a holiday, you know...It's the season premier of Burn Notice.  And my Grandma's birthday.  Oh, and Armistice Day.  We should celebrate. 

Should we A to B it or should we round robin it????

JoJo

JoJo

Two of the 3 dudes are planning to be there on Novemeber 11...as long as my wife doesn't go into labor. We may even break out the old town discovery beast for a little resistance training. If it is on...we should be there.

Paddled from Greentree to Castlewood Saturday.  Water level is really low. Paddling upstream, had to portage several times and at some unlikely places.

Maybe we missed what was actually happening last night. We were at Sherman Beach at 5:30 and stayed until 6:30 or so. Maybe we will need to ask more questions next month. Hope it went well.