Where We're Sailing Today / where we sailed today

kevinkan · Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1025 Location: San Francisco

The numbers of windsurfers has definitely dwindled since I started windsurfing seriously around 2000. I remember the Coyote parking lot being packed on weekends. Seems like the numbers had dwindled even more, so it was nice to see so many concentrated at Candlestick on Sunday.

veterduet · Joined: 29 Jun 2000 Posts: 195

Nice day at the stick. Sailed from 1 to 3:30 on a 5.7 - mellow sailing, just what I needed for my old tired bones (tired from yard work all morning!)

The usual crowd of locals in the parking lot - nice people for the most part, just doing their thing while we windsurfers do ours. I've had my car broken into in Orinda and bikes stolen in the "nice" part of Pleasant Hill, but never a problem at the Stick in well over a dozen years of sailing there. But if you're still concerned out there, then avoid it - saves me a parking space!

zirtaeb · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 1808

Berkeley Tuesday, ho hum but went out at 5 for a nice one hour powered 6.5 session, but boy, did it die just after 6.

beallmd · Joined: 10 May 1998 Posts: 992

FWIW, nice day yesterday with 5.5 building to 4.7 wind at Washoe. Reasonably warm (full suit), sunny, 5 windsurfers with about 12 kiters out.

zirtaeb · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 1808

Berkeley 4 PM session, well powered 6.5.
5:20 session, a lesson in balance and reading, but mostly planable 6.5 till 6:20.

bert · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 108

5.0 at the Stick at about 1:30 today. Parking was tight as the park is closed on Friday's and the local homeboys had most of the prime parking spots by the road. The wind was good by 1 pm, pretty much filled in and flooding so I sailed towards Sierra Pt (wind is fluky out there), played around for a bit and tacked back to the main area for more. When I was derigging a bigass pitbull belonging to a group of Samoan's decided to walk all over my 5.0. They found this funny and I of course gave them my "no problem" smile Crying or Very sad

Still, it was a good day at the Stick.

damel · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 211

With the tide tomorrow what time do (you) think it will be best at treasure island tomorrow, May 12 2012.

jse · Joined: 17 Apr 1995 Posts: 1258 Location: Marin

bert · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 108

5.0 at Oyster on Saturday. Tough getting to Tigers where I could have sailed a half meter smaller. Seems that the more buildings going up around Genentech, the more squirrely the offshore winds are from launch to the Tigers corridor (~1000 meters). Same thing will probably happen to Coyote once they build.