What is up with this wind B.S?

gtur13 · Joined: 06 Oct 2015 Posts: 31 Location: newton, ma

Where is the wind in Boston because I have not gotte one good wind session end of july or august and even when the wind forcast is good , the wind still sucks?...Maybe I should just move away from this area and seek new places?

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Naaaah ... that's too logical.

OTOH ... it's refreshing to see a windwhiner actually suggest moving. Usually I have to suggest that to people lamenting their lack of wind, and usually my suggestion is scoffed at, as though there aren't plenty of new jobs and new friends available in windy areas.

I thank God and the gods in general every time I look back at the fate I faced when I worked in Wilmington, Delaware: 40 years of corporate life on the east coast. It brings a shudder that runs from my scalp to my toenails every time. Getting drafted in the height of the Viet Nam war was the greatest single external event that ever happened to me, because it got me out of that fate I thought I wanted and changed my life for the better in many ways, ESPECIALLY opening my eyes to the rest of the country.

Mike \m/

flaherty · Joined: 01 May 1997 Posts: 437

And how did you parlay that into retiring in your 40's ?
I also got drafted in 1966, spent a year in Vietnam,
and I'm still working.
Yea, Cape Cod, where I sail ain't the Gorge. I do usually
spend one week in Hatteras and two weeks in Maui each year,
to supplement. August is usually summer doldrums.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830

Frank4 · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 69

Wow, worst summer since 93'!!!!I thought it was my imagination. Is it drysuit season yet? At this point I look forward to some cold wind.

FB

mcmpc · Joined: 30 May 1992 Posts: 197

i'll b dousing myself in white gas whilst smoking a doobee at the stahbux in wayland sq prov ri, tomorrow afternoon. all r invited! maybe the wind gods will b happier + you'll think of me.... Shocked

gtur13 · Joined: 06 Oct 2015 Posts: 31 Location: newton, ma

I am tired of this you know what when I get out of highschool I am moving and for now I am buying myself a decent wetsuit and I am gonna get out there and I am gonna windsurf as long I dont freeze to death... (=

mewindsurf · Joined: 30 Jun 2000 Posts: 177

Get yourself a nice drysuit too rusky. There's a ton of sailing to be had in the winter. I probably sail twice as many days from october to march than I do from april to september here on Long Island. And in the winter, I don't go out unless it's 5.3 or better.

Try moving down to the cape. Between Kalmus/ West Denis and the north shore beaches, there is really good sailing to be had. I average about 100 days a year on Long Island with a full time job, wife and 2 kids. I'm sure I could get some more days in living on the cape. Plus if you're into freestyle, there's no better place than lewis bay. It's so easy to pull off tricks there it's like cheating.