Anyone sail friday out east 6-5?

andymc4610 · Joined: 19 May 2000 Posts: 684

Anyone sail friday out east, i know it was really windy but was it gusty? I was already rigged in the morning and sailed swell all day on a 4.5 surprisingly not really gusty like saturday morning. sailed till 5pm....

westender · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge

We left Swell Fri. @ about 4:30. You call that Not Gusty? Rolling Eyes

I had a good time but saw others who didn't.

andymc4610 · Joined: 19 May 2000 Posts: 684

This was frontal and not as gusty as thermals....no glass on the water. thought for where the cloud line was (overhead) it would have been way worse. Now saturday morning at swell that was gusty 3.5 to 6.0. had to get to PDX by noon, no out east for me Sad

sissybar · Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 53

the current is moving. big rollers to help push you up river. friday was quiet with few sailors and few kites -- 4.1m and fairly steady.

saturday 3.6m, maybe more current, more kites taking up lots of space & losing their boards, sometimes blowing mist, big rollers to help you surf up river, very poor showing from windsurf camp. (3 sailors, dare i say it)

andymc4610 · Joined: 19 May 2000 Posts: 684

On sat. I was driving back to PDX from 12-1 saw Lots-O WS, they must have stopped at Event site/ Rowena/ Dougs or Celilo. Back in the day people would have gone to Bingen or Mosier.

windsurf64 · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 6

I sailed Doug's from 2-6pm on Friday. Started out on 4.1 but sailed that only for an hour before switching to 3.6. Even the 3.6 was too big at times.
Arlington was the place to be yesterday. I missed it, but gained a great climb of Mt Hood with a ski from the summit...so all good Very Happy

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isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Roosevelt/Arlington was windy as hell for about 30 hours non-stop from mid-PM Fri through Dark P.M. Saturday.

Saturday blew 4.0 to 2.8 from breakfast to after 9 PM, with huge rollers interspersed among lots of chop produced by incessant pounding gusts (this was purely marine push, not the steady stuff of thermal origin). One session was full-on 2.8/2.5 (38 mph average with much higher gusts), but since I don't have a 2.8, I took a break then; my 3.2 was dangerously overpowered and I had been sailing and rigging down (5.2,4.7,4.2,3.7, and finally 3.2) and re-fueling since before 7 AM. The winds steadied out at 3.2 from before sunset 'til 9 PM. The crowd far topped anything previous this year. It was classic by corridor standards.

Friday was MUCH better, from about 4 PM until it got too dark to see anymore.

Mike \m/

30knotwind · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 239 Location: White Salmon, WA

Threemile Canyon was 4.6-4.0 from Friday afternoon to Saturday night. If you had running lights, you could have sailed all night too cause the wind didn't stop for 36 hours. It was very consistent, no gusts huge, long, rollers you could surf until your back leg fell off, then jibe to the other side and hammer that leg. Absolutely perfect 12-hour sesh on Sat. A couple kiters, but mostly the regular Spokane, Boise, Tri-city sailors.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

30knotwind · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 239 Location: White Salmon, WA

As long as they stay in Cali, and off my wave, they can 'know' whatever they want.
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