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Missing left and right……..or East and West

 

 

Although the surroundings were spectacular, le whitecaps at Donner Lake were pretty cold.

Moving West, to one of my favorite highway (61),

 

 

 

      the light at the end of the tunnel was not as expected.

No wind at Kailua!

Diamond head had a bit of action but too light to sail. Bummer

 

Politically correct. Part Deux: ‘Washing your dirty laundry in public’

 

No, it was not another episode of mudslinging in the parking lot, but instead using early departed parking spots (3!!) to dry a freshly cleaned up kite. (sorry no pictures)

West wind, low tide, wind shadow…..you name it, all ingredients were there for doing laundry: crashed kite and mud bath. I deflated the kite in the shallow water and folded it. At least one side got clean. Hopefully today we’ll do a spin dry cycle.

Are you thinking kite loop?

Are you crazy!

There goes the mudslinging!

 

So you all want me to rig my 16 again !!!!!

 

I will take donations in green bottle, twist off, real cork, plastic ones..... and Advil

 

I manage to keep the kite dry and possibly the board as well.

 

On this shot, on the right, I am been pulled upward. Pretty much the whole ride down.

Switching to windsurfing 5.0 was great. I should have been on 4.5 to enjoy the big swells

 

Getting the Big Kahuna ready for Hawaii

 

 

Flat water delight, but this big guy is slow.......z kite not me

 

April in September

 

Friday I was very fortunate to notice abnormaly early high wind at SFO. This put me in alert mode and I immediately looked at the satellite like my mentor taught me. The day before I had notice the arrows being squeezed by circles (no I was not watching ‘The last of the Mohicans’) on the pressure map, so that told me we had good conditions to come. The ebb was just started, so I called a few friends and went for an early bird session. My 4.5 on 73L was loaded but not OP. Very westerly though and gusty. After a short drop, It looked like it came back enough later to compensate the flood for the late raisers……you know who you are ;-)

Let’s hope for early wind again today.