We're in the middle of a three day NE wind extravaganza! Sunday night, Anne, Drew and I sailed the Hole towards sunset with a bunch of other people out. A little chilly with all the cloud cover, but the wind was honking! Anne was killing it, sailing through jibes and waterstarting with ease. Drew also got a few waterstarts, and sailed at mach 10 a few times on a 180 liter freeride/4.2 wavesail combo, sans harness! Scary, scary, scary, but lots of fun to watch!! Personally, I nailed a well powered spock 540 in chop, and then fell about 80 times trying to do it again...
Today after work, I drove down to Isabelle's and snagged an hour of off off side off wavesailing before the sun went down. It was way more fun than it looked from the beach, so I'm really glad I decided to suit up in the 50 degree, overcast, spitting rain... Most of the waves were waist high, but there were a few head high nuggets rolling through. All the waves had one thing in common: multiple turns! It seemed like every wave was lined up for three, four, five, even six bottom turns! So much fun, even when it's only waist high! A lot of them were barely fizzling off the top, so it was also super easy to chuck aerials off the lip, but with the offshore wind, most of them sent me out the back. Still, ridiculous amounts of fun!
Tomorrow's forecast to go more NE, and building seas up to 4 meters (13 feet for all you imperials out there)!! If it happens, you probably won't find me in the shop for too long! Shop early, or not at all when it's blowing 30!
See y'all out there!
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Wonder if Ocracoke will fire today?! I will not make it (all the drive belts off on my 4runner), but hopefully you all will catch a killer southside session! Nothing crazy, but all fun!
The ferry ride may be worth it today?! I look forward to the report tonight.
That's pretty rad getting a hardcore surfer out on a windy day!
Sorry Bill, no south side report! The wind never veered east at all... so we went to the reef instead!
Hey Aaron, luckily Drew is a pretty open minded surfer! A lot of my surfing buddies are looking to get into windsurfing or kiting this year, because they're sick of waiting for the wind to die! Most of them have barely been in the water in the last few weeks, so they're getting stir crazy! I'm more than happy to help them make the transition!
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