Ever have your kayak blow away on land?

First of all hello to everyone. This is my first post even though I've been lurking for about a half a year now. I would have posted sooner but every question I've had so far has already been asked and answered in one forum or another (by the way: major thanks to Backcountry for his step-by-step instructions with pictures of the "new school" sonar power supply). Anyway...

About a week before Christmas I beached my kayak in Pillar Point Harbor after being out for about 3 hours in fairly light wind, and I had started walking up to my car when all of a sudden a huge gust of wind came up--the kind of gust that picks the sand up off the beach and sends it straight into your eyes and hits your skin like sandpaper. I covered up for the few seconds it lasted and when it was over I looked back and my kayak was lying upside down about 25 to 30 feet from where I had pulled out. I gotta tell you that of all the scenarios I envisioned when I started kayaking one of them wasn't having my kayak blow across dry land. I'm just glad I had already pulled my sonar off and had taken my rods and net out of their holders.

Anyone else ever have this happen to them?

Gerry

Never happened to me, but I'll be thinking about it now! 

Welcome, sand2water!  Glad you came out of the lurker closet.   

PS:  Cool avatar!   

 Last year scwafish and I were putting in at braitos marina to fish when we should have been surfing clear lake. I unloaded my boat and went to go get my gear only to see my kayak on the move and skipping across the asphalt.

glad you posted and looking forward to your reports and pictures.

Not yet! 

  Hi Gerry and Welcome!

No, it hasn't happened to me, since my yak is a short, wide little Hobie Sport, but of course it happens a lot with inflatables.   -Matt

looking forward to your reports and pictures.

Yikes...I guess that means I have to start catching fish worth reporting on or taking pictures of. Thanks for the welcome.

Gerry

No, you don't "have to"; but isn't kayaking and catching fish and taking pictures the very essence of life?   

Welcome to the madness Gerry 

About 3 years ago, I remember Jason / jselli was packing in his stuff after a kayak fishng trip at Linda Mar when strong winds blew his Prowler 15 off the roof of his truck and sent it down a ditch about 20 feet across the parking lot This happened just as he was ready to strap the yak down No damage to the yak -just some battle scars Would have been tragic had the kayak hit  someone who got in the way

Two incidents come to mind.

Last year at Muir with Chuck.  We both ride Hobie adventures.  I was trying to rack mine on top of his 4 runner.  Wind gust came up and it blew right out of my hands.  Luckily no damage to boat, vehicle, or bystanders.

Then last week during the outrageous storms.  My hobie outback was kicked across the yard during gust of up to 40-50 mph

WELCOME sand2water!     Once your OUT in the MADNESS.....there aint no GOING BACK into lurker status.
not to me, but to Ben the Guitarzan.. we were at mendo "one windy afternoon" I left and later reportsindicated that he and Anita took a break/nap back at the launch, tying his BIG DBL-Craft to a root (that he later discover was cut) Someone along the shore yelled out "your kayak is getting blown out to sea". Ben awoke and said he had to Quick-Strip and jump in and swim hard to get it!
       "if it would have been acouple of more seconds, I might have not been able to catch up to it" his report read.....and it was WINDY!

 

[quote author=yakuza...We both ride Hobie Adventures.  I was trying to rack mine on top of his 4 runner.  Wind gust came up and it blew right out of my hands...Then last week during the outrageous storms, my Hobie Outback was kicked across the yard during gust of up to 40-50 mph  [/quote]

Yakuza;  Then I better be more careful with my little Hobie Sport: 
It paddles, it pedals, it sails...and in a high wind... it can fly! 

WELCOME sand2water!     Once your OUT in the MADNESS.....there aint no GOING BACK into lurker status.
Someone along the shore yelled out "your kayak is getting blown out to sea". Ben awoke and said he had to Quick-Strip and jump in and swim hard to get it!

I guess I was lucky it just blew down the beach instead of out into the harbor. There were four or five folks on the shore watching me and it would have been pretty hard to try and look cool as I ran as fast as I could into the water after a large piece of plastic.

Gerry