Friday May 1st

Juani222 · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 138

Hey people - tomorrow looks good... I'm planing on a short trip to Fogland in the afternoon... anybody interested?
Hey Igor, did you get some action in Hatteras?

OK, see you tomorrow,

Juan

acidland · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 53

Hoping to leave work early and be there by 4:00.

omcm · Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 7

I plan to be at Fogland around 11AM to catch several hours around high tide.

scooper · Joined: 28 May 1987 Posts: 537 Location: Massachusettes

I'm thinking about it. It depends how work goes. The weekend looks pretty light.

omcm · Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 7

I sailed Fogland from 11:30 till 2:30. The wind never really turned on but as Andy Brandt would say "Every day of sailing is a great day of sailing". Thanks to my Kona One I still had a great time on and off the plane with a 6.0. I'm really enjoying the Kona. In the gusts it got up to good speed on a plane and in lulls I'd put the dagger-board down and work up wind. I actually made it to the upwind shore. In lulls I tried push tacks and helicopter tacks and slam jibes.

There was one other sailor on the North side and there were a few on the South side.

Oliver

ron.c · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 1460

The wind never turned on at Fogland??

A rare trip for me to the city of Hyannis yielded strong 4.2 conditions at Kalmus.

First on and First off the water was my adpoted father Bruce. The old man hung in there with a 5.0.

A new contact for me - Steve, one of Jerry's Kids / aka the Boston Irish Mafia. We traded tacks for an hour.

I had 3 "throw-aways", 2 goin into a left hand corner and a good one right in front of Steve - I said to myself that I'll give him a good Kodak monent off a nicely formed ramp. Didn't plan on give'n it a good face plant.

The light rain and light fog were no big deal with the decent mid 50s temp.

Another great day for my cherished 1991 glass wrapped block of concrete.

By the time I left, there was about 6 other guys on and off the water.

Just a plain old solid "A" Day!!

Ron C.

omcm · Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 7

I shoulda gone to Kalmus!

Gerda,

I broke a couple of sails recently and need some repairs. PM me if you see this.

Oliver

Gerda · Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 52

Oliver

You can find contact information for Gerda and sail / kite repair at her new website:

http://mysite.verizon.net/hbreid/windfixes.html

Regards

Bruce

sailingjoe · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 1087

It seems like the Kalmus winds were greater than those in Falmouth by 5 knots or so. It was rather gusty for us, too. Those sustained high wind bursts that come out of nowhere in a lull can definitely create face plant situations.