Where We're Sailing Today / where we sailed today

dsgrntlxmply · Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 180

New 134L board, o/p 6.4, went to 5.7 until it it went too shallow. Still learning new board; fin seems way too large. Three other people out, fast but choppy sailing.

windward1 · Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 528

Good wind, albeit a bit gusty. Had waves to head high to play on. And lots of them. And this is still January. This is sooooo great!
Very Happy

dvCali · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 250

Windy day if quite up and down kind of warm, four-five people out.

Not a great day for me, rigged a 6.0 and grabbed my slalom board just at the end of a lull, I did see the wind changing but went out anyway just to get VERY overpowered in what build up to a steady solid 4.2-4.7. After a ignominious fall I gave up trying to waterstart and drifted back to shore. Not too much fun but tought me a lesson: rig small and use a biggish easy board in winter!!!!

ctuna · Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 422 Location: Santa Cruz Ca

windward what were you riding today?

Any trouble getting out ?

What hours did you ride?

zirtaeb · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 1767

Berkeley started around 2, nice 6.0 outside weather, but took a really long slog to get out well past normal windline. Switched to NW around 3:45 and did the song and dance deciding to go NW.

windward1 · Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 528

CTuna,

I was on my Bic with the 7.0. Very overpowered on the outside and got worked. But it helped on the inside ans the wind was coming slightly offshore at times creating extremely up and down conditions inside.

One other guy was out on a board slightly over 100 L and with a 5.0 sail.

I had no trouble getting out. Just made sure it was between sets.

I launched at 12:15 P.M. Sailed for about an hour and felt pretty worked. But it felt good. I was going to pack it in, but then the other guy went out and after a bit of a rest I went back out again. The wind was picking up and after getting slammed a few times and having some dramatic crashes and still having great fun, I decided to call it quits as a few muscles and tendons seemed to have had too much and were protesting.

Great waves though. Something we do not get enough of at NB.

nicolas72 · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

Any report from today @ tomales ? Thinking about going tomorow hoping for a repeat. Would not want to end up lonely there...

SwellRipper · Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 87 Location: Channel Marker 8A

3rd Ave was fantastic today considering it's January (the new March?).

Three people went from lower launch and a bigger handful from upper launch. I did the classic first reach with no harness, oops, so after backtracking to get it I was finally underaway. Rode 5.4m/86L, more than plenty for me.

Really nice to be powered and zipping around, banking and slashing on that fat channel windswell, a few jumps here and there, what more can you ask for! Nice to be some doing some form of "surfing" without having to endure all that paddling, duckdiving, beatdown, and sitting/chumming nonsense. Wind Power!

kevinkan · Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1017 Location: San Francisco

jse · Joined: 17 Apr 1995 Posts: 1256 Location: Marin

Great weekend for the few of us who made it there. (About 5-6 each day). 3 hour sessions on Saturday and Sunday, 4.5 both days. Not too cold. Tomales has a way of throwing you to the wolves early in the season, so it was nice to cruise and not have to rig down, and down, and down...

Steve