We spent last weekend with the Oregon Coots at Paulina Lake, Oregon. Nestled in the Deschutes National Forest at 6000 feet, Paulina is a high desert gem and a great place to sail.
Paulina Lake is about 45 miles south of Bend, Oregon and is situated in the Newberry Caldera National Monument.
It's nearing the end of the season and a lot of folks showed up to get in one last camping trip.
The food was excellent, culminating in a pizza feast on Saturday night in Jetman Dan's homemade portable pizza oven (650 pounds of brick and steel!).
He baked a dozen pizzas to feed about thirty people. Bob Wessel made his German chocolate Dutch-oven dump-cake. Jim Reim brought his world famous cheesecake.
The clouds rolled in and Sunday morning dawned cool and wet.
Time to pack it in and head for home.
A photo slideshow for those of you who couldn't make it - See you next year?
And the video:
Looks like a great weekend
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to come out west next time you're in the States, Max. We'll find you a boat to play with.
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteGreat article, pictures, and video. Makes me homesick for Central Oregon, Crescent Lake, etc. Please tell us more about that boat you(?) are sailing early in the slideshow and you are rowing later and in the video. It's lug-rigged and has a sharp pram-v bottom beneath the bow.
Regards,
Michael H.
Michael,
ReplyDeleteI just remembered that the boat in question is being sailed at the beginning of the video, rather than being rowed. Anyway, you know which boat I mean!
Regards,
Michael H.
Great write-up, photos and video! Thanks. Paulina Lake was a fun messabout. It was good to catch up with old friends and meet new ones.
ReplyDeleteBob
Bob, it was good to see you at last. On-line friendships are great, but real life friends are best.
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to write about that boat. You've seen it here briefly in the past - it's a Sam Devlin Egret and it's been in my boatyard for a couple years now waiting it's turn. That's my friend Lou sailing her. We cobbled together a rig and rudder to see how she sails. She has a deep skeg instead of a centerboard and we wanted to see how effective that was. Lou is going to take her home and fix her up this winter, so she's his baby now. I'll keep you posted on his progress.
There has been some boat shuffling going on around here and an update is in order. Soon.
Great photos and I love the boats, but can you guess what interested me most?
ReplyDeleteI'd guess you'd like to get your hands on that oven. It was amazing.
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh at Jetman Dan; 650 pounds, portable? Not in my book!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great time. Wish I could have been there, but I was marching my daughter down the aisle. That was good too.
Hey, Proud Dad!
ReplyDeleteI carried half of those bricks and two of the welded steel legs from the truck to the campsite, so yes, technically they are portable. Made myself scarce when it was time to load them back in the truck.