Wow, I’m tired now. 4 out of 4 days on the water. And this was a long session as it is definitely the last warm day I’ll get this season. The sun was out and the SW wind was already 15+ knots. I rigged the 5.6 Idol sail which I haven’t used in 2 months and marvelled again at how light the Skate 108 is.
I got planing right away and after 2 tacks started working my way upwind. The SW wind makes some cross chop on the way upwind, but once I’m up at Wedge island there are waves galore to ride.
I recall that surfers go out for an hour to catch 4 waves. Luckily on a windsurfer the time in between waves is fun too and my comfort on the board improved as the session went on. I was having a great session carving down wave faces and had a few moments where I felt I was being “propelled by the wave”.
I was in my shorty and a bit chilled except when the sun was beaming on the nice black neoprene. The water was 19c. I was falling more than the last 3 days and was not quite on top of my game, but didn’t have any wipeouts. The search for waves kept me heading back upwind after saying “that’s my last wave ride”. I wound up doing 50 km in 2 hours and 15 minutes.
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| My inbox was full of wind alerts! |
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| Hit my top speed on the 2nd last run downwind |
I hit 45 km/h on my downwind flatwater approach to the last jibe around one of the islands. The sun was still out which made seeing shoals easy. I was lucky that the storm cells kept staying just a bit north but eventually we did get some bigger winds after my 2pm charity conference call. I was too tired to go out again so we just secured Phillip’s sailboat after a nice rain front passed through.
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| Eventually there was no avoiding the storm cells passing through |
I’ve packed up two sails, the old Techno and the foil in case there is any wind in southern Ontario in the next 2 weeks. Later in the day my knees were definitely noting that windsurfing is harder on the body than wind foiling.
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