I’m gonna try to make it but will have to leave as it really ramps up !
-Stuart

See you after lunch.

Aiming for 3pm

Eta 1:45

It was, indeed, brisk.

I rigged a postage stamp. Worked well 95% of the time. The other 5%, a 7.7 wouldn't have helped.

Barrett, Stuart, Chris P and Haizar were here. Stuart set a personal best for altitude. We also had a kite visitor. Delozier or Alejo?

Thanks for the pics, Barrett. I'm sure Haizar is thrilled with a record of his planing adventures. Today was his first in the straps and lit.

btw, no ID on the kite. Texted Dave who said that he and Alejo were up at Old Fed kiting on 9s but don't know who swung our way.

Gary and I had an epic afternoon on Hartwell, powered up/overpowered on 5.5s!!

As William mentioned, my focus was jumping. (Perhaps my watch made me do it.). Nevertheless, there was too much wind for speed runs with my oversized 5.5m2 wing and 925cm2 foil, and I’ve been riding swell plenty enough recently, so I thought as I’d go bump hunting.

Instead of hauling hard and fast upwind, I rode slow and upright across the wind, back foot strapped, harness hooked, luffing most of the wind. It was easy to accelerate by sheeting in and/or lifting my rear foot and pointing my foil downhill. I used my harness as much as possible to rest my arms. There were no sunglasses messing me up.

And, like that , I searched for bumps and launched off them. 17 according to my watch. Hoolan app telling me max 8.5 feet vertical , max ~50 feet horizontal. I landed about half. Not sure I believe the numbers, but it felt great!

Now my right arm is paying the price for sheeting-in all those times.

Great day, and great to see the early spring crew is growing. See y’all next time

sailing with batman ~

pics nothing special. Finally took the trouble to go ashore and dig out the gopro hoping to catch video of the amazing light, waves, wind, spray, and rainbows shooting out of Stephen's rear . . . but had the silly thing in timelapse mode ( ). Anyway, as Stephen mentioned, it was pretty full on from after 4 (sailing club's anemoneter shows it consistently gusting into the mid-upper 30s).

great day to even be out there . . . (and to walk away from, in tact)*

Amazing pics! Looks like you both had a great time. But this part confused me.

zzholt wrote:

pics nothing special. Finally took the trouble to go ashore and dig out the gopro hoping to catch video of the amazing light, waves, wind, spray, and rainbows shooting out of Stephen's rear . . .

Stephen is a unicorn? (Or, did you mean off the tail of his board?)

at William -

and yeah, I definitely mean in the spray from the tail of his board

(you'll otherwise note in all my pics/vids that I try to stay just a little windward of Stephen. )