WindDoll

The hardest part for me doing an upwind 360 is keeping the sail close. Many times when I go through the eye of the wind into the lee-side-sailing position, I lean the mast into the wind and pick up power and turn the nose off the breeze by pushing out the clew—the sail is an [...]

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Only 51 degrees on Monday in the middle of the day in mid June. When has that ever happened? When I got home I ordered a warmer wetsuit! I got the best of the wind in Berkeley, but still I was not happy. I made two sail & body 360’s and one clew-first tack, but [...]

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These three days are interesting in that they show very similar wind being sailed comfortably on different windsurfing equipment. Thursday average 24mph on rrd 94 Free Style Wave and Windwing Bash 5.1 being perfect; Friday average 25mph on rrd 85 Free Style Wave and Bash 4.6 being OK but needing gusts of 27mph for true [...]

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We didn’t expect any windsurfable wind Wednesday, with a forecast of gusts from the east at 50, but at 12:30 the wind suddenly came up out of the west. Anton, who sails every day after work, came down early so as to be sure he got some. The wind was really fluky—the graph below says [...]

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A northwest wind is forecast for this hills this evening, so I thought I’d follow Domond’s lead and get my windsurfing done early. (Berkeley tends to blow from 11 to 2 and then die when the wind is strong northwest on the coast.) I rode my bike to the marina a little after noon, instead [...]

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