April 2! Almost a month earlier than I’ve ever been one the water in Northern Georgian Bay. We were up opening the cottage and collecting the gear to get ready for a drive down to Cape Hatteras.
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| Post session thumbs up! |
An unusual east wind was blowing. It was 10°C air and sunny but the water was 2°C. I had the 4.7 Duke still rigged that I’d hoped to use for winter ice sailing but that never happened this year. So that was the sail I put on to the Fanatic 140l Stingray which still had the 99 cm foil underneath it.
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| The strong east wind - very unusual |
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| 2°C water temperature! |
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| Low water and birds by the old pier |
I got out and realized the harness lines were all falling apart and the boom was too low. But I managed to do 10 km before calling it a session. Because the wind was so much from the east I was able to tack almost up into the Key Harbour channel. Never had a true east wind to do that before.
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Tacking east up into Key Harbour
Then around the island counter-clockwise |
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| Decent time on the old slingshot 99 foil |
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| Storage room cam! |
I came back and went all the way around the Launch Pad island this time going counterclockwise downwind to the west. Normally when I do that circumnavigation I’m doing it on a west wind and do it clockwise.
It was super gusty so my foil track has me going fast and then slow especially when I was in the wind shadow. Wind foiling is definitely the preferred method to be out on a day like today. Shortboard windsurfing would be slogging way too much. Wing foil would be hard to handle in the lulls.
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| Loading up gear for Hatteras |
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| The east wind was predicted to build - and indeed it got stormy |
A great start to northern Georgian Bay sailing and probably my next session will be in Hatteras!
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