Provo Boat Harbor Nuke Fest 3.5 Saturday eve

[Duane Bush]

Too windy for my 4.0 and 80ltr. Should have been on a 3.5 (left at home) and even that was a handful for Brian and Gary on their smallest gear. We got there at 430 and survival sailed until 815. Definitely one of the most consistently windy sessions I have seen at UL in my 25 years of sailing. We kept waiting for it to back off a bit but it just kept building to smoke on the water Beaufort scale 8-9! The swells wrap from right to left around the jetty and roll down the Provo river mouth making for decent side-on wave sailing conditions. Where the river dumps into the lake south of the jetty the water is about 5 feet deep 100 yards plus off shore so I guess this helps the waves pitch up as they roll in and makes for a nice resting zone for old men. This was my 2nd 4 meter wave day in less than a week at Provo Boat Harbor. Hope it keeps it up, great spring so far!

[jimhornbeck]

sailed lincoln 3.7 6.8l way over powered. Fun jumps but wave riding was a slam fest. put on the 3.0 and the wind picked up more, sick. first time on 3.0 in ut. swell was very good head high and over,more spred then the hatch .A handful of brave kite surfers just killed it.way exciting.

[Duane Bush]

THe waves at the boat harbor were bigger on Tuesday than they were yesterday even though it was lighter 4.5 wind Tuesday. I think the higher wind yesterday flattened things out a bit. Still nicely spaced troughs between waves wide enough to stay in on jibes and 3-6 foot crumbling wave faces. Sounds like it was huge down at Lincoln! A sweet day indeed!