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.
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.
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Sveta and Alex are self-taught novices with their own gear and lots of enthusiasm. It was a pleasant surprise to be able to windsurf with them on Saturday (June 9, 2012). It was a gorgeous day, with lots of planable gusts for my 8.0 m^2 sail. They weren't taking a lesson, but I still shadowed them occasionally as they sailed. For a video that shows only a bit of planing and then concentrates on Alex and Sveta, see below. (The video comes complete with a heart-stomping, foot-throbbing, computer-generated musical score!) As of now Nov. 3 2011, it looks like maybe the weather has gotten cold and nasty enough to end the Central PA windsurfing season. But you never know!
However, in the 2nd week of October we had some GREAT warm and windy weather out on Cape Hatteras... BABA (the Baltimore Area Boardsailing Association) is a friendly club of windsurfing enthusiasts with a wide spectrum of abilities, from rank beginners to accomplished veterans. They hail mostly from Maryland, Virginia and DC, but the May and October Cape Hatteras trips draw people from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, and even far upstate New York. |
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AuthorThis is Bill vdB, sharing little vignettes of windsurfing on Sayers Lake, in Howard PA. and sometimes elsewhere. |