Grants, 6/1, 5.2-7.3, 86L-135L

[kenonstott]

May was pretty dismal for us sailors so it was great to start out June on a good note. Josh, John, Mike, Patrick, Carl and his wife all on the water in fluky but plentiful wind. 7.0’s were the call at 1st which was surprising since it was gusting to 30 before 6:00. Then a short dead spell before it shifted SW and whitecaps covered the lake. By then 5’s were the call for the 100L boards and 5.7’s for the 80L boards. It eventually reached 26g35 at times. I was on my 6 and 86L combo and was totally maxed out but sure it would back off for the lunch period. I ate lunch while everyone else left and went out for another hour of screaming reaches in winds still gusting to the high 20,s but averaging anything from 11 to 27, pretty up and down. Finally quit at 2:30 with nothing left. Tried the summer suit with sleeves in the afternoon but the water was still cold enough to make it hard to breath when the water rushed into the suit. Great to have Carl back doing screaming downwinders on the big Windwing. Great start to June.

[Carl Christensen]

The stars aligned, the kids got dropped off and it was windy. Loaded up with a pile of stuff that held some promise to fit together. Kaerli said if I was going, she was going. Period.

I had expired tags and passed a UHP on I-80 before I remembered. Oops. Couldn't exactly drop back after that, looks guilty. Just one day late though and he never flinched, just let me pull away over 2 or 3 miles past the GSL Marina. Yes. New tags paid and in the mail now.

Good to see the usual suspects. More broken glass and sticker bushes than I remember and I wouldn't have rigged the Windwing except it was lulling when we got there so Bob's yur uncle. Kaerli rode it first and did a great job just flying it unharnessed while guiding it back from the far wall to the less rocky side to eliminate a long rescue and so I could go out and feel silly while the smart money rigged down, (and laughed-Josh). Thank goodness that thing is stable 'cuz it was twin turbo overboost on most of the reaches. There was nothing any tuning could fix. I could tell because rigging down almost 2 square meters left me still wound a bit tight.