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.
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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 [...]

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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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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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When we’re setting up our windsurfing kit, we try to find the right balance between booms high so that we can weight them with our harness so as not to bounce and low so that we can steer the board easily.
Both Isabella and I put our booms too high Tuesday–we expected to be powered and [...]

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