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The experience was indescribable. I couldn’t come up with any words for what the day provided.
I’m tremendously grateful to Chris Joyce, and Skymongrel Scott for taking a camera out to capture the experience. I’ll add a couple pics to this post, and a couple galleries worth of pics will show up soon.
The crew that hit Long Pond when the wind came up was Joe, Scott, Art, and Ted. I arrived later with Isaac. Groupme reports were coming in that showed the wind about as consistent as my dog is at listening to me. Good and bad. “Joe is good on a 3.8” was the last one……thanks Ted.
As I arrived, Ted was taking his gear down, and Joe, Art and Scott were out in a rapidly intensifying nuke fest. 4.2 was the biggest sail out there, and 4.2 was the smallest sail I had. First though, I spent some time helping Joe, Art and Scott off the water (and taking some great pics of them). The way the wind speeds up around the guard rail/hill/launch was making things very tricky, and trying hard to pry gear from sailors hands. All told, major damage was averted in the end.
Isaac rigged up a great looking old Gaastra MW5 and we hit the water…overpowered, and way overpowered. The sky had cleared by this point and the sun was shining with the front having passed. Now, however the wind was starting to ramp up with gusts over 40 on handheld meters and smoke on the water conditions were materializing.
After only 5 minutes on the water, things got out of control. It was only sailable in the lulls. Isaac commented that the ramps were setting up pretty nicely if only the wind was more organized. The wind was from the south in one part of the pond, and the west in another. When I was able to get up and going, I ditched when I saw the walls of water coming……
more to come…..
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Thanks for the great session Doug! Intense but great fun sailing in that much wind.
I was a little surprised that we got off the water with our gear and ourselves in one piece! My arms certainly needed a lot of stretching in the following days.
Looking forward to seeing the pictures, and the next session.
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Liquid smoke on the water. At times is obscured the view of the parkway all the way across Long Pond. I would ditch, or get low in the water to keep my gear from being ripped from my hands.
Art doing some big wind sailing before dinner.
Long Pond wind blown scum. I drove around with this on my car for a few days. As hard to see through as road salt.
Joe locked in and blazing.
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Darn Tree! Scotty lofted a few nice floaty jumps as things ramped up.
Isaac is retro cool. He held it down the most when it got super nuclear. Some nice jumps (see the photo gallery page). That beauty MW5 was rigged super ugly.
Doug ripping in a “lull”. Made the jibe after this one.
Not a crash! Seriously. I was in the water riding it out when a big gust came along and at the top of a swell and ripped the gear from my arms. I chased it for half a minute.
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