#4 Le Jai - Etang De Berre

Perfect.  Had the weekend with the kids, and have friends coming to visit on Tuesday. Monday's forecast looked good - and it delivered as promised.  I headed to the nearest launch to the house, Le Jai is 27km away. Apparently good when it is NW, despite questionable water quality.  It is basically at the end of the runway at the Marseilles airport.

I got there at 10:30, and watched a lone sailor ripping on what seemed to be a 4.5. As I rigged my 4.7, a nice guy emerged from his RV parked at the beach and suggested I rig smaller as it was gusting to 30knots (at least that is what I understood of his French). Oh well "le 4.7 c'est mon plus petit" was all I could say. I was fully powered and took quite a while getting used to sailing small gear again.  I definitely like the shorter harness lines and smaller footstraps that I've set up. Sailed for 2 hours, covered 45 km.

MOVE OF THE DAY - downwind 360 on a wave face, gybe, backwind the sail, keep sailing backwinded on the wave, then tack and continue in the original direction. Yelped out loud with glee when I did my first one. See GPS plot below.

No wind due for the next week or so.

GPS Track of Downwind 360 on a Wave Face

The trees tell a story

23 Degrees C, 25 knots, Sunny