It wasn’t supposed to be as windy as yesterday, but it was a bit colder so I thought the firm crusty snow might make wing skiing faster. As I headed out to the Launch Pad I met a nice couple (Roman and ??) cross country skiing back to the highway who might be interested in windsurfing at the Launch Pad in the future.
I pumped up the 6.0 Echo just as Cary dropped by. He held the wing as I got my skis on and then I was off. I set up the APProSail app which has a top speed display.
I was zipping back and forth making slow upwind ground. I got south enough past Scott and OJ’s to find a spot where there once was a day navigation beacon - something I’d never noticed while windsurfing.
I went out in front of the Launch Pad and started the time lapse on my webcam.
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| Setting up the webcam selfie! |
Most of my session the watch said 46 km/h and then I realized it wasn’t recording my track. That was for the first 52 minutes so I figure I did around 13 km. I reset it for the last 5 km and tried a few broad reaches. I got a 49.8 km/h top speed on the 3rd try. I’m guessing I could even go faster with waxed skis in the future!
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| 49.8 km/h top speed! |
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| Got the last 5 km of my session on the GPS |
I put the heat on so we could go out to the Launch Pad and watch the sunset later.
At sunset we first went to some of the glare ice so I could try out my new blades. They worked really well and will be nice for wing skating sometime if we get good expanses of glare ice. We bumped into Cary and Liz and had fun checking the ice depth - 24 inches!
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| Looking forward to trying these skates with the wing sometime |
That may be a wrap on winter winging at the Launch Pad. I never did get the septic working again so it is closing time for this winter. We’ve packed some gear for a planned Hatteras trip…
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| Foxy curious as I load windsurfing / foil boards! |
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