May 7th, Deer creek boat beach, 125l , 8.0 solid.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 4:30 pmWow. Good one.
Looking at the Herber airport, the steady west wind let me think there could be some potential. Showed up , rigged, by 2:00PM I was hitting the water in between fishermen to get was was now a steady but fairly strong (more like 6.5) wind under a beautiful sun. I put in a solid hour plus of non stop planning getting used to my 8.0 which after some tweaking and flattening was nicely handling the breeze (did almost a full reach no handed!) except for the gusts when my arms were getting seriously stretched.
50 jibes or so later (ok maybe not quite
I decided to call it quit as my arms were wasted but definitely a good one! derigged under the sun and left as it started to drizzle.
It seems the island would also have been a good place to stop with much more of a reach (the sailboat beach is fun but the reach is really short!)
PS: I had forgotten how much of a pain it is waterstarting big sails especially when the boom doesn't touch the tail of the board!
Looking at the Herber airport, the steady west wind let me think there could be some potential. Showed up , rigged, by 2:00PM I was hitting the water in between fishermen to get was was now a steady but fairly strong (more like 6.5) wind under a beautiful sun. I put in a solid hour plus of non stop planning getting used to my 8.0 which after some tweaking and flattening was nicely handling the breeze (did almost a full reach no handed!) except for the gusts when my arms were getting seriously stretched.
50 jibes or so later (ok maybe not quite
I decided to call it quit as my arms were wasted but definitely a good one! derigged under the sun and left as it started to drizzle.It seems the island would also have been a good place to stop with much more of a reach (the sailboat beach is fun but the reach is really short!)
PS: I had forgotten how much of a pain it is waterstarting big sails especially when the boom doesn't touch the tail of the board!