Busiest day ever in Toronto

I've never seen the Toronto Windsurfing Club so busy. By 4 pm when I left there were around 100 windsurfers on the water and 60 on shore.

The busy scene in the TWC rigging area as I rigged to go windsurf

TWC conveniently located near downtown

TWC panorama!

I met up with Tom who had proposed a Kona long distance sail a few weeks ago. Well it was blowing 15-20 knots so we decided we'd just sail in the perfect warm SW onshore winds. I was rigging my 9.0 Kona sail on which I would surely have been overpowered and then Tom kindly offered me his sister's 6.0 Ezzy.

While I was rigging, Jill came in from her session with a huge grin on her face. It was wonderful to see her and reminisce about rigging Ezzy sails in Baja last year. Of course this year's Baja trip didn't happen!

I went out and scored planing runs on the Kona for over an hour. 18 kms in total and even a few planing jibes. I did a few upwind tacks with the centreboard down and interesting to see comparable upwind angles when up on the foil with a small sail from a few weeks ago.

I was sweating in my 2 mil wetsuit as I only fell in the water once. It is so nice to windsurf in relatively clean water just minutes from downtown Toronto. I saw one huge and one small fish surface and dive as I came close. I'm guessing they were salmon?

It was cool seeing Max out on his wing before he got back to teaching lessons. While Max was doing video analysis of his students he nicely shot a video of my sailing by:

Planing through the Toronto skyline!

Pretty good for a Kona!

My GPS speed trail

Speeds up to 35 km/h on the Kona (a bit faster than last time)

Thanks Tom for the loan of your sister's Ezzy!

I had some good conversations with a couple of the dozen or so foilers and was impressed by a few foilers out there doing consistent foil jibes. Who has the Canadian flag sail?