Wabamum was blowing in the morning today. Jim sailed a 5.3 for a few reaches and then we both foiled 5.2 and 5.3 for an hour or two. Awesome day!
Mike's Story
Nice. Got a good ride on my 10 for a while then rigged my 15. And then it picked up again for a while was fully depowered and still jumping big. Matt showed up and rode a 15 too. Good day
Ross's Story
7m kiting at AB in the AM, lake to myself, sunny and decent swell for central AB. The high water seems to have damped the backwash from the shoreline so AB was more like 10 years ago.
Mike showed up a couple of hours later and did his usual and the wind started to die, so I left when the late risers started to pull out the big gear.
Harold's Story
Sounds to me like Pigeon Lake was the place to be. I was on a 4.2 and my 74 litre board for hours on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Sadly, lies all lies.
On Saturday the wind didn’t kick in until about 63OPM, and I wimped out. Brad foiled alone for a little more than an hour. So I rationalized my wimpiness by saying that by the time I had driven over and rigged it would have been too late. Lame excuse.
Sunday the wind didn’t kick in until about 3PM, at which time it started raining. Things really started to rock and roll about 6PM, but the rain was torrential. Of course, I would have rushed over and sailed into the night, giving up a wonderful dinner, wine, and relaxation in a warm cottage. Fortunately, Brad wimped out (not me!!!).
Monday morning I beetled over to Brad’s place and actually had a couple of hours of pretty good (mediocre?) sailing on my 6.1 and 99. It was exactly as advertised – 16 knots with small gusts. So you know the story – plane like mad, swing into a jibe, lose the wind or apparent wind, fluke a pivot jib or fall (lots of that, sadly).
Al was basically on the same equipment as me, but he’s 10 pounds heavier, so not much planing. Brad cruised around on his foil for a while until the wind died completely.
So it sounds to me like it was a weekend for foilers and kiters. Unless of course, Tim reports great things at Keho.
Still, better mediocre sailing than no sailing.
Tim's Story
Tim has great things to report - gusting over 80 at Keho, sunny ... but couldn’t convince myself to do the drive this time :(
Gerry's Story
4.8 here from early this morning till at least 5pm. Only sailed less than an hour. Lake had a lot of trees (which are usually easy to spot), plus smaller branches, sticks and reeds. Figured it was only a matter of time till I hit something. 1 swim a week is enough. Water still requires the 5/4, but can get away without booties now.
Ted's sad story.....
I had some interviews to do Monday morning for a work project and then had to host our Rotary Zoom meeting at Noon. I loaded my gear into my truck after lunch and went down to the water - just as the wind started to die. I might have been able to make it work, but instead, Louise and I went for a 200km Motorbike ride around Miquelon Lake Park. It was a bit cool, but still a nice ride...
No photos from anyone - we will have to do better!!!
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