[Nick Heath]

Thanks go out to our contributors, Enoth, Sue & Thom! This saves the club a few $ to spend (wisely) elsewhere.

[Tony Clayton]

The Kayak Cuisine weekends began 20 odd years ago and were an outcome of demos that I did at SKABC symposia. I retired from leading club trips three years ago when I turned 80. The more recent Kayak Cuisine trips were co led by myself and Heather Kirk. For many years recipes were published regularly in the Newsletter under the title of Kayak Cuisine. I still have those recipes in printed form and perhaps they and others that I have accumulated can be organized and scanned for archiving and online access at the SKABC website. This is a bit of a technical challenge for me so if anyone is interested in getting that set up I would be pleased to cooperate.

Kayak Cookery by Linda Daniel first published by Pacific Search Press in 1986 was extremely useful to us as novice kayakers at that time and I still refer to it from time to time. Probably no longer in print but worth looking out for as a used book.

[Kevin Amos]

My go to recipe is Chicken Taco’s. The key is using Costco canned chicken. You can also do vegetarian.

3 Camp Tacos to Kick Your Next Dinner Up a Notch

[Heather Kirk]

We can run the Kayak Cuisine weekend again as soon as the COVID crisis is over but in the meantime, it’s a great idea to share some recipes.

Just yesterday I tried a new dried Laksa noodle soup from Singapore that I think will be a good base for a quick and filling dinner. I got the soup from Sungiven Asian supermarket in the mall at 12th and Cambie. The manufacturer is Prima Food. I didn’t add anything to it yesterday because I wanted to make sure it tasted good first, but when I make it again I’ll add a can of chicken, a can of baby corn and a can of straw mushrooms (and maybe some more chili paste). On a short trip, shrimp would be more fun than chicken, and some fresh veggies such as bean sprouts or green beans would round it out. The chili paste and coconut broth is brought to a boil, the noodles are boiled for 7 minutes and it’s ready.

Heather.

[Former Member]

High Level Kayak & Canoes from Lethbridge have published a wonderful book called “The Art of Culinary Kayaking”; it is the best Recipes from their many Guided Kayaking Trips, up the Westcoast, and Baja, Mexico areas.

Great recipes for Kayaking Adventures, and/or at Home, and/or at the Campground.

Rick

[Kapila Jayaweera]

Great idea Allan.

I am going to work on writing down few recipes that I can share.

Kapila

[Former Member]

Hello all!

One of the most interesting tidbits that came out of the Trips Catalog Survey was the trip with the most votes (“Yes! I want to do this trip!”) was the Kayak Cooking Weekend. This was an annual tradition in years past.

I would very much like to see that trip happen, and maybe even more than one, given the level of interest.

Let’s start with listing your favourite camp cooking menus and meals. What’s your strategy for curry? Any vegetarian meal plans? Are there any bakers in the crowd? Maybe someone has a scone recipe they could pass on.

I’m looking forward to hearing what you would bring to a Kayak Cooking weekend.

[Former Member]

Hi Sarah,

I’ve got some extra room at my place just up in Coquitlam. Send me an email at tidaljourneys@gmail.com and we can chat about options.

John

[Philip Kubik]

Commercial kayak storage is available at Rocky Point for $25/mo.

https://www.rockypointkayak.com/kayak-storage

[Former Member]

Needing a rental place to store my kayak near Port Moody. Anyone got space to rent ?

[Bob Maher]

Karen,

You may want to phone Western Canoe and Kayak as they may be selling off some of their used Plastic kayaks.

Bob Maher

[Former Member]

Hi there , any plastic rock garden kayaks on offer ? My name is Sarah Cummins. Cell 604 786 7191

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I’m looking for (or suggestions of) a plastic boat for rivers/rock gardening/playing at Surge/etc.  Preferably less than 16′, but enough storage for a few days overnight, and not too narrow.

Thanks!

Karen

[Former Member]

Hi Mike ,

thanks for posting the quiz . It’s handy to revise and learn stuff , even if I get to it late ! Here are my answers :

1A) moon and sun  , moon has greater pull.   B) lunar day is 24 hours and 50 minutes which is the time moon takes to travel its orbit . High and low tide therefore 50 minutes later each day .

1C) Tidal Cycles . If the earth had no land masses so that water could move unobstructed , tidal bulges caused by the gravitational force of the moon and sun would move constantly westward, and every place on the planet would have 2 high and 2 low tides of equal size on each lunar day . Continents and land masses get in the way . Free  vertical rise and fall of water is strongly influenced by distribution of land masses , topography of the shore lines and by ocean currents , and different tidal cycles exist in different parts pf the world  , they are diurnal ,semi-diurnal and mixed semi diurnal .
Semi diurnal tidal cycles consist of 2 nearly equal high tides and low tides a lunar day. Most places on earth have this type of tidal cycle .
Diurnal = only one high and one low tide per lunar day , found in Gulf of Mexico . Victoria BC is positioned such that there is a lot of flooding and ebbing water happening simultaneously , so although it is mixed semi diurnal it looks like diurnal tidal cycles .
Mixed semi diurnal , 2 high and 2 low tides per lunar day , and of different sizes , “ diurnal inequality “ .

1D)Mixed semi diurnal is found predominantly along West Coast .

1E)Tidal Wave describes the vertical movement of the oceans caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun .
Tsunami is a wave caused by a submarine earthquake or volcano . It can travel for vast distances and can build to huge heights over shallower water . It has a very long wave period , so when it hits the land the wave just keeps going and going and going ,

2 Amphidromic point …a no tide point ( dynamic theory of tides ) water sloshes backwards and forwards between continents and cancels out to zero tide amplitude . Happens in several places in Pacific .
Apogee. Moon is afar away at its furthest point from the earth and has less gravitational pull.
Chart datum . Depths on a chart are shown from a low water level called chart datum . Selected so that water level will very seldom fall below it .
Drying height  . Vertical distance of seabed exposed by tide and above the lowest tide .
Ebb. Horizontal movement of water caused by falling tide .
Fathom . Unit of depth .
Flood . Horizontal movement of water caused by rising tide .
Higher high water large tide . Average of highest high waters taken over 19 years .
Lowest normal tide . Average of all the lowest tides over 19 years .
Neap tide , happens when the sun is at a 90degree angle to the moon cancelling out some of moons gravitational force . Smaller tides during these phases .
Perigee . Moon is proximal to earth nearest to earth in its elipitical orbit ,exerting stronger gravitational force .
Spring tide . Sun and moon in alignment exerting strong magnetic force .

3) Rule of 12’s

a) rough assessment of speed , heights and  timing of tidal changes .
b) 6 time periods .
c)diurnal .
d) tidal volume divided into portions of 12 , working in base 12 old imperial measurements is easier to apply rather than decimal base a 10 .
e)1) when current is strongest and weakest , plan trip accordingly . 2) j of tide relative to launching and landing 3) how long to high and low tides .  Timing , heights ,current  pertaining to trips ,

4) the lunch problem ,  I am not sure how to calculate this , so the questions I would ask is what time is it now ? How long to high tide ? What sort of tide neap or spring ?is the wind blowing onto the beach that might make the water higher than expected and where is the high tide seaweed mark . As it seems the group is pretty laid back wanting to stop and sunbathe for 2 hours ,I might opt to pulling the boats up above the high tide seaweed mark , and get away before it falls  too low .Good watch with alarm to wake up snoozers and a weather eye to the water level aided by stick marker might help .!

 

5) tying boats up for the night …….don’t know the best answer for this although I have used my tow line before . Haven’t been able to get the middle boats out without untying everything though . Could you show me how to do this sometime ? Thanks   Sarah .

 

[Former Member]

sorry phone # 604-690-7207

Doreen

[Author]

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