8/13/2020 – Lake Havasu
Our second to last Havasu trips brings us two new faces and
some obscene heat.
Along with our regulars, Alan, Winni, Nick, Eliya, Whitney
and Zack, Celida and Matt joined the crew to have some fun on the lake. Celida and I worked at Spinlaunch together
at the end of last year. Matt and I both
work at Raytheon, but really I know him through Vector friends. Both of these two are super fun people and we
were happy to bring some new energy out again.
We start Friday morning with the regular wakeboarding session off the shoulder just outside Thompson Bay. At first glance, the water looked okay but after just a couple riders we decided to head south for the wakeboard cove in search of better water. Just south of the shoulder is a narrow section of the lake that has decently high hills on both sides of the lake which means that it is wind protected. We hardly ever ride in this area since boats can come flying by kicking up big wakes while we float around chasing rope. However, on this day the water looked way too nice and we decided to go for it. We did get in some decent pulls in for a few riders but not without issue. The alternator is apparently putting out too much voltage when the motor is running which makes the tower speakers shut off. The handle of the wakeboard rope broke, twice. And the touch screen stopped working which means we didn’t have control of the ballast. Luckily we had a full boat of people and we were able to tip the boat to one side or another to kick up a decent enough wake to surf on. We ended up staying out almost to midday with a bunch of us taking a few pulls.
With poke and sashimi in our bellies from lunch and a quick
nap, we switch gears from slashing water to sitting on noodles. We handed Nick the wheel for the afternoon to
get more seat time and to get more comfortable operating the boat. He took us for a lap through the channel and
back out to copper canyon. We had a nice
float in copper canyon until almost 7pm when the winds kept picking up our
anchor and our neighboring boats had a wide swing with just one anchor in.
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SO, story time: At
the beginning of August, a few of us were supposed to have movie night at the
Deswing house. The movie of choice was
to be Predator, the original. This is
the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie where he says “Get to da choppa!” among other
gems. To pair with this movie we were
going to have an Indian themed dinner.
Nick and Eliya were going to make mango lassi and garlic naan, Zack and
Whit were going to make saag paneer, and Holly and I were going to make Rogan
Josh and Channa Dal. However, a couple
days before the night, SpaceX put Nick and other engineers on quarantine
lockdown in preparation of the astronauts coming back from the International
Space Station. So after a series of text
messages and a conference call we narrowly avoid blowing an O-ring with Zack
and decide to have the dinner and movie in Havasu instead. However, we had already decided to do a
cowboy theme night as a replacement for going to the country line dancing
bar. The result? Cowboys vs Indian Predators! You choose the costume! The food came out really good, except for the
non-existent Saag Paneer, the costumes were fantastic, and Whit led us through
some line dances.
Just as we got to the halfway point of the movie, we paused
it to discuss shifting gears from bellies full of indian food to drinking
games. Then there was some noise from
the door, at 10:00. Alan opens the door
and in comes two America mylar balloons, a 30 rack of coors light, a bottle of
Jack Daniels and Nick Reddy. Oh Nick, what an entrance. While it is a surprise that Nick showed up
unannounced, we aren’t surprised that Nick showed up unannounced. However, this does fuel the drinking energy
and we play a couple hours of rage cage.
Thanks Nick, well done.
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Thanks for a wakeboard/wakesurf heavy trip and a super fun
theme night guys! Hopefully Nick and
Eliya get lucky and have their work schedules slip so they can make the season
closer.