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Topic: Growing the fleet |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:36 pm Subject: Growing the fleet |
Growing the fleet would be great by alternating kite and windsurf slalom race heats! Double the fun from one set of jibe marks and one race committee! |
Topic: Growing the fleet |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:31 pm Subject: Growing the fleet |
Not a good idea to race kites against windsurfers!
I've sailed a bunch of combined fleet slalom races in ideal conditions and the racing is frustrating for kiters as well as windsurfers. Windsur ... |
Topic: Thanks! |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:06 pm Subject: Thanks! |
Thanks to windsurfers who stopped to help the kiter in trouble near the bridge at 3rd Ave yesterday afternoon. It all turned out OK, could have been a long evening getting in. |
Topic: UPDATED: Now that is an eddy! |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:55 pm Subject: UPDATED: Now that is an eddy! |
I'd like you to share your speculations about the eddies and the w & wsw typical recent years at 3rd. If you're proven right about them, then we can call it fact. |
Topic: Cat. 3 Hurricane Odile hits La Ventana and Los Barriles. |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:35 pm Subject: Cat. 3 Hurricane Odile hits La Ventana and Los Barriles. |
Bo Bo = small black fly that seems to enjoy being inhaled when not hanging out in a nearby ear. |
Topic: Ode to the Bay... |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:00 pm Subject: Ode to the Bay... |
If you spend Dec, Jan and Feb at La Ventana you will have a hard time readjusting to the real world paradise of the Bay Area where you actually have to drive to sail. Figure on the same size equipmen ... |
Topic: La ventana in march? |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:51 pm Subject: La ventana in march? |
La Ventana in March is a lot like the bay area in Sept.....less certainty of wind but usually some very nice days on the water. Not usually such big swell as Dec thru Feb but still good wind. I've h ... |
Topic: Bad decision - good outcome at the Stick |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 12:59 am Subject: Bad decision - good outcome at the Stick |
Top cap strap tore loose from the sail once when I was way out and, of course, the sail slid down the mast. A good Samaritan gave me his spare downhaul which I tied to the strap and to the end of the ... |
Topic: Who's heard of Sammy's Aloha Watersports in Kailua? |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:05 pm Subject: Who's heard of Sammy's Aloha Watersports in Kailua? |
try to get Matt Pritchard, why not the best.... |
Topic: Better place to reitre: La Ventana or Maui |
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:36 pm Subject: Better place to reitre: La Ventana or Maui |
Year around on Maui or at La Ventana would be too much. Friends that move to Maui come back. I wouldn't want either island fever or Baja summer heat. I can't see how I could improve on summers in t ... |
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