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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Bummer.
We talked a lot about leashes with single bolt setups and now everyone is introducing much larger foils.
84 for someone 170 lbs seems overkill, especially for 18mph winds.
Guess we gotta choose our gear more carefully now that selection is expanded.
Good you saved your gear.
Longest I ever had to slog win finless was 2 miles without going downwind at all. I suspect slogging tail first would have gotten me upwind.
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bert
Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:58 pm Post subject: Da Stick on Sunday |
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Was about to do some geriatric freestyle when a young black man came up to me and started to rant and rave about how us guys are fucking up the fishing by sailing into their lines and scaring off the fish. He screamed that he's about ready to whup our ass if we keep it up..WTF? I calmly told him that I'm not that guy and would be sailing out yonder ( I pointed towards HW 101). He left satisfied with his chest puffed out. Went out afterwards but sadly, the wind wasn't that good (15 mph) for the 5.0 and freestyle. Swapped to the foil and had a really good hour session. That's what is great about foiling..you never have a wasted day.
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Gwarn
Joined: 22 May 2013 Posts: 124 Location: SF
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:01 pm Post subject: TI |
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Bert I agree with you about not wasting a day now that I foil.
I wouldn't have gone windsurfing today with the so-so wind and the flood tide, but now that I foil I got out sailing.
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Showed late at Berkeley, 4:30.
5.0 and Naishfoil in gusts over 20, coulda just windsurfed with my 92 Firewave.
Lost 10 lbs in the last month, so have ridden 85 liter boards at Berkeley well over 25 days this season.
Down to 158 now.
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Goodwind
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 323 Location: On water
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: Da Stick on Sunday |
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bert wrote: | Was about to do some geriatric freestyle when a young black man came up to me and started to rant and rave about how us guys are fucking up the fishing by sailing into their lines and scaring off the fish. He screamed that he's about ready to whup our ass if we keep it up..WTF? I calmly told him that I'm not that guy and would be sailing out yonder ( I pointed towards HW 101). He left satisfied with his chest puffed out. Went out afterwards but sadly, the wind wasn't that good (15 mph) for the 5.0 and freestyle. Swapped to the foil and had a really good hour session. That's what is great about foiling..you never have a wasted day. |
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! Came 4PM ON SUNDAY at the stick. There were 7 of us, so the fishermen left us alone. Five windsurfed on 5.0 to 6.5 meters while two foiled on 4.4 to 5.4. Lighter wind but I was planning most of the time. A foiler was still on the water when I left around 6:30. All in all, a fun day.
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Da Stick on Sunday |
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Goodwind wrote: |
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! Came 4PM ON SUNDAY at the stick. There were 7 of us, so the fishermen left us alone. Four windsurfed on 5.0 to 6.5 meters while two foiled on 5.0 to 5.4. Lighter wind but I was planning most of the time. A foiler was still on the water when I left around 6:30. All in all, a fun day. |
Rob you were the only un-foiled sort of consistently planing!
Another day of absolute foil dominance. I was doing worse than yesterday on my Isonic. The wind dropped the second I went out and the 6.5 was small. Maybe the 7.3 would have been enough or maybe a bigger Isonic and a 8.5 or 9.0 ... but the point is that Robert was going up an down seamlessly with a 5.4 and the F4! At 200 pounds!! To make things worse John took his foil out with a 4.4 and he was going slower but ok.
There is no longer any question in my mind about the superiority of the foil in light wind. Last year I thought that at my weight the Isonic 111 was around the same light wind ballpark ... now that foilers are getting better it is clear that it is not!
Time to stop being a wimp, go back on my foil, and learn the damn thing!
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:02 pm Post subject: Coyote Jul 23 |
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50' sailing time! of which 35' slogging!
Out at 3 pm, powered up with 4.8 from the beach. pass the first buoys and I hit a dead zone. Slog through, and then I am back powered up. I keep going, hey it is windy, eventually turn. Very ugly flood chop, some little swell riding but the wind is just enough. I am getting suspicious, and I veer toward land. Hit the dead zone and ... it is now much longer and weaker, close to zero in places ... it goes all the way to 100 yards from the beach. There I get a little puff.
Get out, think about rigging the 5.4, but it is dropping fast. I take down the 4.8. The wind is now 6.5-7.0 ... ok, time to go home to MTB.
Strangest season ever continues if this is the new normal we really need foiling!
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windward1
Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 1400
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:32 pm Post subject: Natural Bridges 07-26-2019 |
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Well got another couple of miles of coasting Santa Cruz in. Fellow windsurfer who did not sail today helped by caddying my sail to the beach from the parking lot. No small favor as at Natural Bridges that is a trek. He also went up on the small bluff and motioned what the big south swell was doing to help me get out.
Windsurfed out to the kelp and tacked up towards the channel. A pod of white-sided dolphins joined me on the crossing of the channel. Very cool. They were treating my big SUPSail board like a boat and porpoising next to it and in front of it.
Sailed out and looked at a trimaran sailing outside, then tacked up the coast to Strawberry Beach. Wind was getting lighter up that way and so I cut short my quest to reach Three Mile and turned tail and headed home.
A bit of a challenge landing as a south swell set came in just as I was ready to land. The life guard helped clear the water of people at the landing zone. I was able to stall on the face of the last large swell of the set and ride the next smaller wave in. But water was reflecting in perpendicular directions off of the rocks and even the beach retreat of the waves were powerful.
Today's track below:
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windward1
Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 1400
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Correction: Not White-sided Dolphins, but rather either Short-beaked Common Dolphins or Long-beaked Common Dolphins per the fold-out guide I picked up at the Seymour Center when I took my granddaughter there the other day.
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bert
Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665
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