A bunch of kiters were out but I was the only guy windsurfing. I used my small 83 liter waveboard and a 5.5 sail rigged with plenty of downhaul. I would have preferred a smaller sail in the puffs, but the 5.5 handled them ok and was nice to have in the lulls. I wasn't quite feeling my sea legs so I didn't try any big jumps or tricks, but the scary looking clouds and rain and a leaping shark added a bit of drama to the helmet camera video. The music is "My Electric Eye" by the Chemical Brothers.
Windsurfing Wind from TS Bonnie from James Douglass on Vimeo.
4 comments:
Thanks for the report. I like your blog. How can you find so much time to write up good reports there, hold down a full time job and windsurf/kite is beyond me.
20-25 seems like 4.7 would have worked. I thought you loved the 4.7?
And Snowy, James is a scientist, so he can just claim all this blogging stuff is research.
Snowy- Thanks. I'm efficient.
Aaron- I do love the 4.7. But it was onshore and flukey with lulls below 20 so 5.5 was the call. Also, somehow I don't think overcooked Florida wind packs the same punch per mph that cooler wind does. Seems like I read that somewhere and there was a sciency reason for it.
A kite instructor once told me that cold, heavy air makes for a more power packed wind than hot. The theory is based on the density of the air, but I just can't accept it. I don't think the differences are that dramatic.
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