Provo boat harbor, Hypersonic

[Carl Christensen]

Wow. I can't believe how solid the wind is at Utah lake. It is so smooth, like butter. I mean, when it's good it doesn't falter or puff. It comes on and stays on. The water is warm enough for a short suit at this point. The silt has settled a bit over the winter and the water is kinda blue green. The beach is even medium clean. There were at least four kites out looking good and another two or three on the north jetty from three till six.

I launched off the South jetty and sailed in the open water. Only one kite came out of the bay and not for long, they really like that smooth water in there. The air was warm and the wind very, very consistent. I sailed my 9 m sail although a 7 m would likely have been satisfactory. The swells were very rideable and there was hardly any floating debris (although I have had bad experiences at this time of year before). There are a ton of logs and floatsom all over the jetty's. With that in mind I made it my goal to avoid any floating twigs using the logic that twigs come from branches and branches come from logs and that logs sometimes floats just below the surface waiting for an expensive fin box to come along.

Incidentally, I did not see any carp. I imagined that there was one lurking directly in my trajectory just below the surface at one point, however the awful thud never occurred. By the way, it looks as if the department of parks is considering eliminating the carp. They have been a plague for 125 years since some genius decided to introduce them, apparently to displace the awful trout that used to swim shoulder to shoulder at the mouth of the Provo River in such abundance that my father's father caught them by HAND in crystal clear water. We sure fixed that over the past 75 years. By golly.