WindDoll

Windsurfing equipment is SO important! Today I was cold and my sail felt like a bag. Sometimes all you have to do is move your harness lines! If your sail feels like a bag, move them back an inch. If you feel pretty good, but you’re going a little sideways, a 1/4″ will do.
Always write down your rigging specifications—I write down where to set the mast base extension and how close the tack pulley should come to the base pully. I keep a cheat sheet. I don’t write it on the sail because I change my mind and I change my masts. Different masts need different amounts of downhaul.
On Saturday, I drove to the delta and bought a Goya 105. I demoed it on the river and it was surprisingly OK in that short chop. I bought it for light days at Berkeley.
On the way home, I looked at Isabel, and wow did it seem great, but I had so much crap in the car, that I continued on the Berkeley. It was so easy to tack the Goya on the river with the 5.1 rigged on an RDM. In Berkeley I couldn’t tack for shit with my 5.6 and standard diameter mast. It’s just one mistake after the next.
The biggest kit I keep in my car is the rrd 85 and a 5.1 Bash. It was barely making it Sunday at Point Isabel. I need a bigger fin in my car kit—the True Ames Teardrop 11 was horrible with the 5.1 underpowered.