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Steering some of the off-season crew on a Saturday morning paddle.<\/p><\/div>\n

Winter is “off-season” for outrigger canoeing, so my team doesn’t practice regularly.\u00a0 It is a\u00a0 much less-desirable time of year for being on the water–it’s cold, stormy, and the days are short.<\/p>\n

But it’s precisely all of those undesirable reasons that make off-season paddling so fun to me.\u00a0 There’s a small hardy band of half-a-dozen paddlers that comes together every Wednesday for a nighttime jaunt–an easy 8 miles or so of canoeing from the Back Bay to the Harbor mouth (and when we’re lucky, all the way out to the bell buoy).\u00a0 There’s an irreverence to the off-season that is potty humor and in-jokes, plenty of near-misses with docks and channel markers and whatever mysterious dark detritus floating alongside our boat (a dead sea lion? a dead bird? a bag of beach trash?).\u00a0 But it is also the beauty of bioluminescent plankton and a sky full of stars.\u00a0 It is a Jerry moonlight serenade after we cross the PCH bridge and it is Lynn’s unmistakable and infectious laugh.\u00a0It is pirates at Halloween and twinkling lights for the holiday parade.\u00a0 It is cold toes and noses and ears and fingers, and that occasional balmy Santa Ana breeze that greets us as we round the bend of the Back Bay. It is paddling for the for the sheer joy of being on the water and in the water, with friends.<\/p>\n

But tonight regular Team Imua season practice begins.\u00a0 It is time to prepare for races, to polish our form and build our strength.\u00a0 Of course that’s all good (especially the strengthening part), but I’ll still be missing the off-season, more than a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter is “off-season” for outrigger canoeing, so my team doesn’t practice regularly.\u00a0 It is a\u00a0 much less-desirable time of year for being on the water–it’s cold, stormy, and the days are short. 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