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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Tough Sat. for this old fart.
Start at 2 with 4.2 and 92 liter trifin wave, can barely sheet in as the board harshly bounces around. Only could sail in the Emeryville side of Berkeley, banished there for an hour before crawling back to 3rd dock. Find every lull of 10, immediately followed by gusts that seemed like 30, all in ratchet chop and dancing waters. Is this how Lake Arenal feels?
Or is it just old age? |
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 1:54 pm Post subject: Stick again |
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bipbip wrote: | Chrissy Saturday 4/20 , 2-3:3pm
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Best Chrissy for me in a loooong time!
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Not sure what I am thinking going to Stick in mid April (thinking foil?) but there I was in the middle of a San Francisco revenge: Stick and Coyote are heavily overcast, cold, with no hint of sun while Ocean beach was sunny and I can see the sunshine over the city.
Strange, but the wind is strong and up (more than 25 knots) an down (16-19). I rig 4.3 and go out in almost perfect conditions, all the way to Sierra Point with tiny swell: nice! But it does not last long the wind is back and now I am really overpowered. I can use 3.7 no problem. Some real cannon balls close to shore on the Sierra Point side. Soldier on, sail opened does work kind of nice with the tri-fin. Then the wind becomes patchy, it is switching to a south west component and it does so around 5 pm with a solid 22-25 knots.
Five/six people out (everybody else is having fun at Crissy) plus a couple who show up and give up given the conditions.
Stick can be intimidating in such strong winds and as a reminder of what can happen Vasco gets detached from his board, he is very close to shore ... but the board drifts, and drifts, and drifts, Robert runs down the point trying to reach it, jumps in once to swim to it but he cannot swim close enough (it is REALLY blowing!) ... and there it goes off toward Alameda in a few minutes |
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:34 pm Post subject: Coyote April 22 |
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Finally a perfect day at Coyote. Powered up with RRD FSW 90 and Point-7 ACX 5.4. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Is windsurfing still fun after foiling? |
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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dllee wrote: | Is windsurfing still fun after foiling? |
Yesterday I was really having a blast. The ACX 5.4 fits the RRD 90 FSW like a glove, and it is a fantastic sail. Ultra fast and rock solid but it has a 160 boom length and it disappears in the jibes. It is a free-race sail but seems to work great in the Coyote Bump&Jump. Highly recommended
Foil: seeing Dan Eustaquio on the foil yesterday was impressive. He was on a 3.3 sail and going pretty fast (similar to Chris/F4 with 6.2!) and with great control even in wind conditions that were close to 4.5-4.8 for windsurfing. It was slower than my set up when I was powered up but he was ALWAYS going (even when the wind dropped) and with remarkable upwind angle. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Freeride foil trumps slalom for upwind and downwind..maybe that's it's popularity.
Pretty sure, no foiler except Anton would go faster reaching than an advanced freerider. Freerider would need 1 meter bigger, correctly tuned for the wind.
Got my 8th planing day in foiling, still no good and fail at foiling jibes. |
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kevinkan
Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1661 Location: San Francisco
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Man, just not getting it..naish foil.
Musta had to jump out of straps 4 times each run at Berk to slog in what must be 5 mph breezes.
Still rising and touching, never able to just let it go..too many lulls in 5-15 mph berk breezes. |
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kevinkan
Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1661 Location: San Francisco
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Today, 4-18 at Berk so just paddled SUP for 40 minutes.
Moved back straps forward 2 holes, to keep Naish foil down. Flies easy with rears one hole forward of back setting. Best rides with rear foot ahead of rear straps so far.
Watching 50 year olds Curren and Occi surfing Bells. VERY underwhelming. Sucks getting old. |
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