Chinook County Park

tramontana00 · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 204

Early this season I was in Hood River and friendly Aussie at the beach mentioned there are some good GPS speedsurfing days around October and November in Portland area. Now I found this:

http://www.pacifier.com/~rcbrds/chinook.html

and this:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w1=td&w2=wc&w3=sfcwind&w3u=1&w4=sky&w5=pop&w6=rh&w7=thunder&w8=rain&w9=snow&w10=fzg&w11=sleet&AheadHour=48&FcstType=graphical&textField1=46.29097&textField2=-123.95325&site=rev&unit=0&dd=0&bw=0&BackDay.x=64&BackDay.y=12

Could this Saturday and Sunday morning turn out to be one of those days?

hilton08 · Joined: 02 Apr 2000 Posts: 506

It looks like it should be windy there.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=pqr&pil=CWF&sid=PQR

SpeedRoo · Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Posts: 89

geohaye · Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437

Roo, Boris, et al,

May the wind be with you!

Here's your live wind & forecasts for ARooBar on iWindsurf's alternative website, WindAlert:

USA-WA-Chinook:
http://windalert.com/windsurf/en-us/Favorites/ViewFavorites.aspx?pid=124706

WindAlert features the same NOAA / NWS forecasts. On WindAlert, just click on any of the live wind numbers on the map (or the ARooBar forecast spot) for the scoop.

A custom forecast for ARooBar is included, but depending on wind conditions, the Cape Disappointment, Clatsop Spit, and even Columbia River Bar forecasts may be more accurate for ARooBar. Check 'em all.

For live wind, the Cape Disappointment, Clatsop Spit, and Columbia River Bar weather stations should all be of interest to speed demons in the area.

These stations are all also available on WindAlert's iPhone and Android apps -- for checking winds as you're heading to the beach.

Roo, if you do install your own weather station near ARooBar and want it to be available for free to everyone on iWindsurf and WindAlert, as well as WindAlert iPhone and Android apps, just give the iWindsurf team a heads-up:
http://support.windalert.com/add-my-spot-to-windalert/

billgfc · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 226

Aroobar does not exist and never did . you will never find it on a map.

Lets be real here guys. The name of this site is Chinook County Park. that is what the sign says at the site and where many of us sail.

The US Sailing record is held here by Derek Nielson. http://www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=user&val=55034&uid=2009

Full documentation is on the net by Mark Boydston who located the site a few years back for speed sailing. It was he who brought others there, although it had been recreational windsurfed occasionally since the 80's.

http://www.pacifier.com/~rcbrds/chinook.html

it was Mark, a top speed sailor who told the rest of us who speed sail about it.

tramontana00 · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 204

billgfc · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 226

The Park is Chinook County Park. The locals call it "The Sandbar" much in the way we in Hood River call a similar feature "The Sandbar".

Some maps do label the sandbar "Sand Island"

Maybe you could go there and look at the sign. This is Chinook County Park as clearly The Fish Hatchery is the Fish Hatchery.

Chinook County Park it is, out front is the sandbar, sometimes called Sand Island

tramontana00 · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 204

SpeedRoo · Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Posts: 89

G'day Boris,

here's a chart that gives you a better idea where ARooBar is, nowhere near Sand Island.

Roo

billgfc · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 226

Aroobar is a fabrication and a lie!

Aroobar does not exist never did! Going to a place you did not even find and were nowhere close to sailing first does not qualify an Australian citizen (or American) to name it after himself that already has a name!

The location is Chinook County Park!

Read the signs!