WindDoll

This is want I love about my 94 rrd FSW (free style wave) and my Bash 5.6. When the wind jacked up to 23.5 I was still happy happy happy. Isabella went in for her 4.7, but for naught. The wind died and not just in Berkeley. It died all over the Bay.
I spent most [...]

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My car, which hadn’t been driven since I went to Lopez Lake three weeks ago, needed to go for a drive, so I tossed in my gear and zoomed off to The River, also known as Sherman Island. The wind was capricious, but I got in a good two hours. Here’s my tip on wind [...]

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The fog came in and it was looking like a great day for windsurfing at Point Isabel. But the fog retreated and was pretty much gone by 5pm. Tacked and heli’d my way above the point and was rewarded with a half hour of really good wind. Made four lousy duck jibes and crashed every [...]

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My windsurfing buddy Brian Burke and I were taking in the view and we noticed how tall the Bay Bridge looked. Then we realized it was being reflected in the water. (Click on the photo for a larger version.) A few minutes after I snapped this shot, the wind came up enough for tricking.

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The wind was totally funky Saturday. The Cal Cup racers eked their way in swirly wind out past the point (the anemometer is at the point) where it was blowing 20 to 30 and a little erratically. (It was a day to take a spill and knock a hole in your Mike’s Lab formula board.)

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