WindDoll

Windsurf Extreme at PWA Lanzarote 2008 – video powered by Metacafe

[Read more →]

Conditions for windsurfing in Berkeley were warm yesterday: 61 degrees Fahrenheit (16 Celsius) instead of our usual summer 57 (14). Woohoo!
This is snipped from NOAA area forecast discussion this morning. (NOAA is the U.S. National Weather Service.)
SEVERAL DAYS OF LIGHT SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER THE
COASTAL WATERS…AND THE RESULTANT LACK OF UPWELLING…HAVE ALLOWED
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES [...]

[Read more →]

Yesterday at Berkeley darling girl Astrid was back windsurfing after three weeks cruising the Caribbean. Her first session 5.0 and 90 liter rrd freestyle twintip, she couldn’t land any of her tricks. She was overpowered in 23 mph average and bumming. She waited a bit and went out again, same stuff, and landed everything, including [...]

[Read more →]

NOAA said the heatwave would break at 5pm on Thursday, so I knew we were in for some wind and it was chaotic. I was happy when I made a couple of good tacks. It works when you keep the mast across the board and away from your body and pause just before changing sides.
NOAA [...]

[Read more →]

The air is so hazy it’s hard to read the water. Some of our gang got in a lot of sailing this week, but, after my tow-in last Thursday, I was suffering from Wind Death Paranoia and was overly cautious—which means I don’t want to sail far from the dock lest I get stuck a [...]

[Read more →]