MoonShadow retro-fit

Seeing how I had a minor disaster with having to leave my kayak tied up to the bank and I was gone in the hospital for couple of days when I returned I noticed that my cargo boxes had taken a spill so unfortunately I lost probably I would say 15% of my gear or I should say of my cargo and gear which included some canned goods maybe a bag of clothes and unfortunately to cargo boxes

No this didn’t stop me from continuing on the journey or from having to retrofit Moonshadow into a better streamlined version of itself then the one I had planned with two cargo boxes one inside the other but as I began the retrofit I knew that I was actually winding up with a better streamlined version that would be equipped to handle going upriver and down river better without the cargo boxes then I would with them it’s funny how sometimes adversity can work out to be in the long run better for you having pass through it then what you might’ve intended to do when you had planned it out in the first place

This first retrofit serve me well in being able to plan my interior cargo hold as well as my upper deck plans and an actual rain fly rain tarp kind of a skirting for the kayak in order to plan on transport between camps then unload everything then use the kayak to paddle around on.

Using this format then I wind up with a very streamlined version that is wind resistant or wind conducive because the tarp covers everything and makes it easier to slide through anyways or wind or rain that might come along

So well this wasn’t the final version but was my first steps towards getting organized it was inspiring and help me to get over the hump of losing some of what I had before but adapting to what was going to serve me well in going forward that is what I like about the Great American adventures that I’m on there never quite the same as any other one that I’ve been on and each one has its own unique issues successes failures and adaptions and adaptability they keep me young at heart and strong in mine in order to make work but others might have bailed on as soon as things started to go wrong.