Monday, October 18, 2021

Everyone got foiling!

After a good sleep dreaming of foiling the crew woke up to some Eggs Benedict for breakfast.

A good start to the day

With the north wind being a bit light and gusty, we started with a boat tour out to the Bay to learn the safe windsurf / kite / foiling areas. The tour included a visit to the Dead Island channel, a walk on Oma’s island, a bit of prop damage (my first in 140 hours on the new boat). 

Dinged it

Then we walked a bit of the fire area up the Pickerel River.


A nice burger lunch was on deck at the Launch Pad as we got ready for an afternoon of foiling.

Sketchy BBQ!

Good burgers

Chuck went SUPing

Others caught some shut eye

A barrel fire kept us all warm

A while later everyone took turns behind the big Seadoo on the big 140l Fanatic Stingray board with the 99cm slingshot foil. We had a 100% success rate - but just didn’t get photos of everyone.

Chuck on the big foil!

Bryan flying high at the Launch Pad

And then the wind shifted to west right at 6pm in time for a quick wind foil session. I did two perfect jibes - it is amazing how much better I am when someone is watching. I came into the point and gave Steve the board. He did very nicely as well on the 27 year old NP V6 sail and 140l Stingray and 99cm foil.

A nice little foil session - with two great jibes to start

Kept my speed in the first two jibes!

Gusty NW changed to steady West wind at 5:30 pm

Back to the cottage for a BBQ pork dinner (extra salad for me), then some euchre.

Dinner time - you can even see Bryan in the reflection

Everyone turned in for a nice sleep feeling sun and windburned. And stoked for the forecast for Tuesday…

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