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sflynn
Joined: 18 Jun 2001 Posts: 2
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: Ft. Lauderdle/Miami Windsurfing |
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I am planning a trip end of March. Any suggestions for a location to rent equipment on the water? How are the conditions at that time.
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michaelingbar
Joined: 21 Apr 2000 Posts: 13
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Try Rickenbacker Causeway on the way to Key Biscayne. There's a rental truck there right on the water for flat water and bump and jump sailing.
Try http://www.sfbsa.com/ for wind forecasts and all else S. Florida. |
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geohaye
Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437
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vertseven
Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Melbourne, FL
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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If you're going to sail in the Biscayne Bay (Rickenbacker cswy) watch out for sea urchin. Especially on a beach start, they're everywhere. If you hit the north end of the parking area (just before the bridge), you're bound to have some dolphins follow your board. Very cool experience.
If the wind is blowing north or south go a bit further from the causeway and hit Virginia Key Park. It's on the north side of the Rickenbacker just past the Seaquarium. There is a nice sand bar a few hundred yards out that with a small swell will launch you nicely.
Another nice wind pocket is in Matheson Hammock Park. It's about 15-20 minutes south of Key Biscayne on the mainland. On a good east wind you can sail from the Key Biscayne causeway to Matheson Hammock and back. On low tide there will be a few very shallow sandbars so be alert or your fin will snap like a twig.
You should be able to score some nice wind in mid-late spring.
Here are some google maps to the areas that I mentioned:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.734788,-80.162086&spn=0.01527,0.016394&z=16
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.747352,-80.136981&spn=0.015269,0.016394&t=h&z=16
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.677038,-80.265126&spn=0.030555,0.032787&z=15 |
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