After giving my morning windsurf lesson (blog post on the Launch Pad website), I stayed at the Launch Pad for a 2pm charity conference call. The wind was supposed to shift from NNW to SW at 4pm. I had almost given up but at 4:30 it did switch, just like iWindsurf.com and Windy.com predicted. I headed out at 4:54 and the wind was 12 knots. The water was super clear after the strong north wind lowered water levels yesterday and water from out in the Bay returned. The water temperature also dropped from 23c two days ago to 20c.
I was using my 7m Slick wing with the 125l Fanatic Sky foilboard. I hopped off the dock onto the board and slogged out to the wind line. A few pumps and I was off. A pivot jibe and then into the straps and 8 smooth jibes to get upwind a bit. I could feel the wind was getting lighter and each jibe needed more pumping to stay up on the foil. Eventually the wind was down to 7-8 knots and I couldn’t stay up on the foil.
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| My GPS foil track upwind until the wind was gone |
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| I got a good first part of my session! |
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| Yeah, the wind kind of died on me! |
I slogged back downwind thinking I’ve never seen the afternoon wind come up so late and so short. I went into the channel between the islands and finally fell in and walked back. I was still quite warm in a shorty wetsuit. The wind did come back up around 6pm but I was showering and tidying up gear by then. Grateful to have gotten out though!
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