WindDoll

Sunday I taught another clinic at the club on using the harness and footstraps and waterstarting. This time I taught people how to change the footstrap size and position, because the footstraps that I changed for the beginners Wednesday were changed back by the slalom sailors post haste! The beginners never got to sail with [...]

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Pre-frontal conditions for windsurfing included wavy water with no wind to go with it! The sailing was difficult and the rrd really tippy in the no wind lulls, so I quit after just half an hour and went to no-so-happy happy hour with Isabella and blue-eyed John. We watched Ming sail through the picture windows [...]

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Thursday we had more north wind, not the best for windsurfing because it’s gusty. I’ve sailed enough in the north wind not to get excited. Below are three charts, each showing “nuke & puke” (pronounced nUk & pUk) conditions—wide variance between gusts and lulls—requiring the sailor to jump in and out of footstraps and harness [...]

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When the weather people talk about wind, you can pretty much guarantee there will be wind a plenty, but none a casual windsurfer wants to use. Actually, Alameda can be very good on days like today, when it’s strong west at Third Avenue, and indeed Alameda was blowing 20 for an hour or two. But [...]

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Windsurfing today I thought my booms were too low, but on second thought, maybe my problem was really that I didn’t adjust my harness line length. I kept them long for the holes and so was unable to get rigid in the puffs and weight the mast base. When it filled in better, I shortened [...]

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