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Honestly, when the wind alarms started going off on my phone, I thought I had missed a small wind window for sure. I waffled on going to the lake around noon, and chanced a text to Skymongrel Scott, who replied he had an eye on it as well, and was willing to give it a go. I was feeling like it was a huge gamble and that for sure I would get skunked.
I threw my 6.6 and 7.5 sails in the car with my 115L board and headed to Montana for the 18 gusting 21 ENE winds. Oooops, that Pokemon craziness is for real. The area was jammed with folks with their phones out. Plan be came through as Scott said he was at the east end of Durand. We met up and rigged 7.5’s quick. It looked doable, but NE can be marginal more often than not, and underwhelm.
The conditions were surprisingly good. The shore break was moderate, and a strong current was going west to east along the shore. The gamble was worth it as Scott and I seemed to get the best part of the day. The two of us were ripping back and forth dragging each other quite often on a bunch of reaches….it was great riding. Were totally pushing each other to stay in control over the chop, and make our jibes. Down at Montana their was a red kite out for the entire time we were on the water, and near the end of our session we exchanged psyched whoops with Chris Klazner who got some from near the swim beach at Durand.
The waves were big at certain areas on the water, and it was so cool to look towards shore and be out in front of the houses to the west of Durand.
TOday looked to be a surprise repeat of yesterday and it sounds like at least Ontario Buoy got some time on the water and even got himself all the way to the Charlotte/Summerville Pier.
Sun wind and water was awesome on Saturday.
Refreshed and recharged,
Windydoug
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