05/25 DCCB 8.5M/138L

[JimSouthwick]

The wind came up about 1, but unfortunately, it was out of the N, rarely a good thing at DC. By 2 it had pretty much died, but then about 3 it started firing up again, this time out of the SSW. Waxed and waned (as usual) but provided some fun reaches when it was "on". Got a rare visit from a kiter (that was you, wasn't it, Billy?) First time I'd seen a foilboard in action. Awesome!! We don't often see kiters down at our end of the lake, and when we do, it's usually because the wind is dying, and they're having trouble going to windward. Not this time! After a brief pause to say hi, he went shooting back toward BWB, appearing to go straight upwind on both tacks (yes, I know that's not possible, but it sure looked like it!)

[jason morton]

Jim, your eyes did not fool you. That was Billy and he was able to make one tack from Charleston back to barbwire beach on his Liquid Force foilboard. I didn't go quite as far downwind but going upwind is no issue at all and we can point much higher than we ever have. Even more than our old raceboards. We were talking about how it doesn't bother us at all to go way downwind because we know how easy it will be to get back. And you can go upwind fast. Foiling is so much fun it should be criminal.