WindDoll

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 called for winds 23 to 26 with gusts to 30 Friday and they turned out to be right. Yesterday I used the Flipper 14.4; my first run was powered and the board very lively. Today I thought I’d try the FS 13 again (it’s actually larger than the Flipper 14.4). It spun out on me once and then I thought, well, am I sailing the way Jason trained me? Uh, maybe not. So I worked on keeping my back knee bent and I never spun out again, even when I was dragging a salad’s worth of weed!