4-28-06 Utah lake, pelican, 100l and 6.2

[Emmanuel Pons]

Well what a nice little session!
Arrived there a little before 2:00PM to see Ken and Tom having fun.
Rigged a 6.2, get in the water, 30' later and way to far from the shore I hear a big SNAP. Shit. My sailed just folded in half.

Ok let's start swimming. 20' later... Hum ok may be I should derig otherwise I'll be here tomorrow.

To those who have never tried, derriging in utah lake chop is an interesting excercice ok. done. swim.. on the back, swim on the side.. swim on the other side. Damn Am I even moving? An hour later while getting close to the shore me and my frozen feet I see a boat coming with Tom onboard. Sweet!!! Never thought I'd be that happy to see a fishing boat!

Just enough time to warm up and rest and Ken convince me to get back in the water (luckily I had 2 430s). The wind has picked up and I get another hour of arm pulling exercice. not bad...

Yet another sweet day on the lake.

While leaving I could see 3 other sailors enjoying the place in addition to the early birds.

[RickHeninger]

That sucks about your mast Emmanuel... That was a crazy day! What a nice surprise... We sailed over at the Provo Boat Harbor... I started on my 5.2 and 118 Liter Mistral...

We launched by the "rental hut" accessed by the south jetty and we sailed acrossed the flat water, climbed over the jetty, rocks are brutal, and sailed... I quickly sailed upwind and into the "safe zone" to switch to my 78L board... Surprisingly wound up much of the time...

But I found going IN or (port tack; left hand forward) much harder to stay powered up then going out. Because of how the waves were coming in, it almost seemed like the wind would die down while coming in. It was wierd. Did you experience that on the other side? I mean, it was very powerful just seemed like there was a difference between port and starboard almost everytime. I guess the swell was travelling at a little bit different direction than the wind, almost like there is a "flare" of waves, so with that theory the port reach for you would've been the better one (or going out for you). Ramps are always better in one direction then the other (for mostly obvious reasons), even in the Gorge.

How is that launch at Pelican? How far walk to H2O? Average sail? The ramps/best direction? ... Between 3pm and 8pm we were pretty well powered, Dave G. was on a 4.7, me on a 5.2, Josh 5.8 on the outside of the jettys.

[Emmanuel Pons]

How is that launch at Pelican? How far walk to H2O? Average sail? The ramps/best direction? ... Between 3pm and 8pm we were pretty well powered, Dave G. was on a 4.7, me on a 5.2, Josh 5.8 on the outside of the jettys.

The launch is great: grass for the rigging and about 20 yards from the car to the water. Around 3PM it was more in the 6.0/6.5 range then it went down to about 5.0/5.5 later in the afternoon. Ramps were more oriented for port tack jumps but although they were big they were not very steep. It was hard to get good airs out of them.