Geoff

Love it when you guys show up, Eric, as you always bring some good wind! And I think the Sharks were ruling the lake on Sunday!!

Of course, I didn’t get there until shortly before 11:00, but I thought everyone left prematurely as it was still blowing in the 20s when I left at 5:00. Admittedly, it did drop a touch and after I took a break at 2:00,…[Read more]

Oink  Oink !!

Best thing was that the shift allowed some wall-to-wall riding. The waves weren’t as good for riding as they were on Friday, and the wind/wave directions weren’t favoring starboard side jumps, so it was more a day for good old blasting.

Was hoping we’d see more this week, but it looks like we’re back to the doldrums, alas.

Yeah, this is sad, but probably was inevitable. He’s been a great resource for NY windsurfers.

Combined with my clearing out my “2nd quiver” (which was down in Hilton Head), there could be some great deals ahead. Keep your eyes on the for sale pages, as I’ll be posting stuff there shortly. Fire sale prices, buy one get one, I don’t need or have…[Read more]

Actually, it would be kind of interesting to understand what systems in the brain make windsports so addicting…

Junky that you are, it’s a good thing you aren’t around anything addictive! Ooops!!

Hey, that makes me wonder if naloxone would work for wind addiction?  😉

Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. – Louis Pasteur

Most often translated to English as: Chance favors the prepared mind.

PS – and thanks to someone (presumably you, WD) for leaving the edition of Windsurfing Now on my sail.

GEM

Good to see everyone out. Got a late start due to a prolonged conference call a 1 PM, but finally joined in.

Didn’t sail particularly well at all, though got some fair-to-good jumps. I thought it was because the Kombat likes bigger swells and we were getting something closer to voodoo chop, but very late in the day it finally dawned on me to fin…[Read more]

Well, having been a visitor to the OBX since ’94, I’ve been impressed with a number of observations about the place.

First, as delightful a water playground as it is for us, it doesn’t take a lot of observation to realize that it’s not terra firma, and most of the OBX is very close to sea level. It’s not the coastline, it’s a sand bar 20 miles…[Read more]

Belated follow-up…

I got to Geneva SP at about 12:30 or 1:00, I think, and it was looking 7.5-ish. I saw an Ezzy orange top that I now know was Doug, and a black sail that…I’m not sure whom it was, possibly Suan.

I rigged the 7.5 and went out on the iSonic. It was some good, some hunting-for-wind schlog. Like Doug, about 50/50 in gradual…[Read more]

I figured about as much, and was guessing same on the wind. Had I known enough about the local conditions, I’d have been on a 4.2 at Aurora…and my Freaks tend to be about 0.5 m less powerful  than most other sails. Hopefully the next big day I’ll be able to get there.

For North Sails fans, this doesn’t look to be very significant to me other than a logo change.

For some time now, North Sails that makes sails for sailboats has not had anything to do with their windsurfing kiting gear, it was always mainly a branding thing…though perhaps they helped carry the load in terms of capital, cash flow, etc., I…[Read more]

Thanks, Brad. I’ve forwarded the waterfrontonline link to paddling friends who will be interested. With the Seneca landfill slated to close, it’s not surprising that someone has been working on the next option. This project may be hard to prevent. In the last 20 years, a number of upstate areas have been turned into trash piles, mainly taking…[Read more]

Oh, yes, de Rosnay. It must be said that his “boards” were more like a sea kayak, with space for gear and food and stuff. But, boy, he really was out there. Crossing Ontario would have been nothing for him. Notable that he had nothing but old-style sails…quite formidable achievements his various crossings.

And, of course, there was the TAWR -…[Read more]

Might be smarter (safer, anyway) to have a support boat, but I’m more of a mind to do such things in a self-sufficient mode. Adds to the challenge, though compared to the early NY settlers there’s far fewer predators to worry about so it’s mostly about being able to handle the unpredictability of being exposed to the elements (and being careful to…[Read more]