Sunday June 17, 2012. The wind blew from the south, coming over the ridge onto the lake, causing it to be quite unsteady, especially near the southern shore. However, near the northern shore especially, there was plenty of breeze for pleasant schlogging, and many great short planable gusts. (I was using my 8.0, as usual.) Alex and Sveta from State College were sailing, too, but we were usually pretty far apart, as we all searched for the best wind. The following video is a 2.5 minute compilation of some highlights:
1. Beach start, 2. Planing on port tack, 3. Seeing Sveta on the water and a very slooow pivot jibe, 4. Planing on starboard tack and planing into a jibe onto port tack. The last item, the planing jibe, is instructive (to me!); I will study it to see how I killed my speed (that's bad) in the jibe but still managed to stay upright and get planing again.
1. Beach start, 2. Planing on port tack, 3. Seeing Sveta on the water and a very slooow pivot jibe, 4. Planing on starboard tack and planing into a jibe onto port tack. The last item, the planing jibe, is instructive (to me!); I will study it to see how I killed my speed (that's bad) in the jibe but still managed to stay upright and get planing again.
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