Leo Wind talker has AIDS!

gregorvass · Joined: 21 Nov 1996 Posts: 1113 Location: Behind You

ONCE AGAIN IT WAS....... WAY OVER READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT WAS SO LITE THAT I SWAM OUT.......BARELY MOVED FORWARD......ALMOST TOOK A MASTER SET ON THE HEAD......AND SWAM BACK IN!!!!!!

TODAY AT NO POINT WAS THE WIND PAST 15MPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GUSTING TO 23 ARE YOU ON GLUE??????????????????

FIX THIS BS BY CALIBRATING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

human_catapult · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 374

so how do you really feel about it?

FredBGG · Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 725

Listen you can calibrate as much as you want....
The sensor is up on a cliff,
Wind is just different at different hights.
No calibration can take into account all the variables at Leo Carrillo.

Sometimes when kiting I will have a load of power with the kite high up and fell very luittle when I fly the kite low.

There are times when it can be strong at the top of north beach and the sensor will be reading 12mph and the south east part of north beach will get really flakey.

The best way to figure out how windy it is is to see how far downwind the whitecaps start downwind of the kelp.

laci · Joined: 22 May 1996 Posts: 180 Location: SoCal&the Gorge

What?

dabull1 · Joined: 19 Mar 1997 Posts: 556

No laci, you've got to do it more like Lil John.... WHAAAAAAAT!!!! Give Fred a break, he's a kiter... Bull

jp5 · Joined: 19 May 1998 Posts: 3394 Location: OnUr6

Fred's right, ya have to actually look at the conditions rather than rely purely on technology. Shocked

But I do appreciate the way Gregor speaks his mind and doesn't hold back. Smile

FredBGG · Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 725

gregorvass · Joined: 21 Nov 1996 Posts: 1113 Location: Behind You

For the last 20 years the sensor said 5-10 mph less which is accurate!

gusting to 22 with no white caps??????WTF??????????

Historically when the wind reached 12 average gusting to 16 I could comfortably put out.

15mph top end I could kite on a 17 cabrinha.

The other day the sensor said 16 average gusting to 22 and I could not even waterstart.

THE SENSOR IS WAY OVER_READING IS MY POINT.

ccoate · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 81 Location: SF south bay

So the sensor is over reading, aren't you over reacting? just a bit? What did we all do before all these kind of conveniences were around? F the sensor, learn to read the wind, the water etc. And for pete's sake chill out man. It's the beach, sailing, kiting, nature gets the last laugh... chilling.

gregorvass · Joined: 21 Nov 1996 Posts: 1113 Location: Behind You

Gas is $4.39 last time I checked is we are paying for a service.........!!??

P.S.: I went to college in Santa Cruz you guys have wind. I live in SO CAL.

Where it is hardly ever windy.....that is why we depend on accurate windreports.

If it is reading 40 and it actually is only 25 I would just rig a different sail. If it tells me I can go Sail and I can only swim.....That pisses me off!