Where We Sailed Today

[jp5]

Glad you made it back alive.

[gerritt]

Thanks. Me too. Its the kind of experience that can make you more alive than before it happened. More aware. More appreciative. And even more hungry to get back on the horse.

[loopless]

Tis the season for San Diego. Tourmaline / outside PB point went off for two days. Solid overhead++, powered on 6.3's , no surfers, no kiters ( apparently kiting has been cancelled). One crazy rogue set that was genuine mast high came through. Lifeguards rode that swell it in their rescue boat from a 1/2 a mile out and high-fived us as a sailor dropped into it and they peeled off the corner.

[gerritt]

Sweet - any photos to share?

From what I've seen that place is like a rare diamond - bright when she shines, but really hard to find. Or maybe she is more like bigfoot - only captured on grainy video, making one wonder if she is really real? I doubt I'll ever see her in real life. The idea of traveling down to San Diego for "radical down the line conditions" seems somehow a fool's errand.

[loopless]

I have the bigfoot video - it's the Surfline rewind of PB point. But we are tantalizingly out of frame...... so the mystery remains.

[jc_surfsail]

Actually when I first got out at PB point on Sunday there were 2 long boarders out. One was cool and the other was a complete psycho spaz. I was dropping in a good 200 yards out from them and they were just getting mowed by every set. Even though he could not catch a wave to save his life the spaz found the time to freakout on me as I blasted on by on the way out and when I was on the wave. This is pretty common @ the point and usually I end up yelling back at them. This time I took a different approach and chose to play Mr. Mcgoo and completely ignore him and it worked perfect, he got so bitter he finally split!

[bert]

Good 5.0/90L sailing at Third from the lower launch for 2 hrs. at ebb. 4.5 wind out at the channel. Starting to get a bit chilly but still not too bad. Only one sailing from the old launch. Wind was westerly and kinda choppy up close but nice on the outside.

[LeeD]

For those of us stuck here in the Bay Area.......
Friday, 62 degrees at noon, Berkeley winds 16-23 mph, lasting until almost 3 PM.
Kinda cold in the morning, so I didn't show up till noon. One guy, 175 lbs. out with a 6.3 and 101 Futura at Kite Beach, Steve S, the foiler, shows at 12:30, rigs a 5.2.
I come back with g/f by 1:15, rig a 6.6 Ezzy and Futura 111 and manage 30 jibes before the wind hiccups at around 2PM, but still planable 3/4 of the time between the Frontage Road and Lordships, NNW, NNE, and sometimes N winds. Get another 25 odd jibes before heading back to the third dock in sub 18 mph breezes with lulls down to 10.
Fell in once, using the summer 5 year old wetsuit, not too bad.

[poussin]

Right on LeeD!

[Waterat Pat]

The Landing was firing 20 knots or so with some little bashable waves if your timing was on. Great way to start the year and a sign of good times to come.
A bit cold 45F had to break and warm up the hands at least once.