Montana W'surf session- My first of the year

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Thank you Doug C. for the Groupme message service.  Thank you to the kiters ripping it up at Montana for leaving a message.  This one was not on my radar at all.

I started out by figuring out which of my wind nut buddies I could get to go to Montana on a whim for a thermal session on the freezing water.  Scott Rowe.  Except Scott was banged up from a muscle strain he got while skiing on the 22nd of April.

I went for it without a windsurf partner and was rewarded as the thermal held, and strengthened a bit late into the afternoon.  Greg, Chris, and Gary H. were all foiling still when I arrived, with kites up in the clean air.  The water at Montana was fairly flat, a good indication of this being a thermal event.  No real lake swell to speak of in the 20 mph winds.  the other indicator of a thermal event at IBay was the gust in the meter being within 2-3 mph of the average.

With tons of hope I rigged up a 6.5 pretty flat with my 116L board and headed out.  I hit the wind line 20 yards off the wind, and the season officially started for me with a bang.  I spent an hour on the water, with Gary and Chris hucking big jumps along the pier while I tried to lay my sail down on jibes in the flat windless area by the beach.  I missed one jibe on the outside, and two on the inside…but who’s counting.  The sun was shining, and I am sunburned and smiling from ear to ear.  At one point Scott arrived to watch, and got a couple short vids of jumps and jibes that I will put up on the Rochester Windsports Facebook page.

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