2023-06-18 Rufus

Brad!

The day started early for Ross and I, as I drove him to the airport for his 10:45am flight home.  I got back to the condo at 10.  The lemmings were trying to decide where to go - Maybe Rufus, and maybe Roosevelt.  Kent and I left and drove to Bigs where we got gas.  By then, the group had decided on Rufus, so we had a short drive to get there.

It was fairly windy with a big current.  I went out on my 3.5 wing and 799 foil and had a great session for about a half hour, until the wind backed off.  I started struggling getting up, and getting going.  Very frustrating.  I would get foiling on a gust, and make it part way back downwind, but then the wind would die and I would fall in and loose my ground because of the current.  I ended up with a bit of a self rescue, and a long walk home.

Kent had a great day!  He sailed 52km and was able to handle the gusts and get through the lulls.  AT one point, Dale Cook went flying through on a Wing.  He had started at Mary Hill, and sailed way downwind of Rufus, and back.

Kent - making it look easy!

Everyone was out with pretty well the smallest gear that they own.  There were big gusts, and big lulls.

Handre said he did 3km before he gave up.  He was either blasting on his windsurfer, or sitting in the water.

Handre

As the day wore on, the lulls got bigger, and the gusts either stayed the same or got bigger.

Bernd said it was an "Interesting Day", and Andreas said it was hard kite foiling - "worst day ever", although he made it look pretty good.

Gerry stopped for a look at Rufus, but then decided to join Mike in Roosevelt.

Brad had a close call.  He was in a lull trying to stay on the foil when a big gust hit him sending his gear flying.  His front foil hit the back of his harness, then cut through his wetsuit.  Fortunately, he only had a small scratch on his back.  Very lucky!  Good thing he had his harness and wetsuit on!

Brad - Sliced and Diced!

Mike had camped at Roosevelt overnight, so sailed there.  He said it was very windy!

Being Fathers day, most of the restaurants were very busy.  I think a few of us went to Three Rivers.  Big Jim, Handre, Brad, Blaine, Kent and I went to Pietro's Pizza for supper.  It was actually pretty good!

Back at the Condo we watched Day \One of Sail GP.

Bernd


Andreas


Cynthia

Big Air Jim

Andreas

Blaine

Kent makes a pretty good splash!

But Andreas made a better splash!

Brads - Fin Works 
Thanks Cynthia for the photo!







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2023-06-17 Roosevelt - The Gang is all here.

Image
handre and Bernd Brad and Blaine got up early (8ish) and headed directly to Roosevelt to join Mike and Gerry.  Others (Jim, Andreas and Bernd) went to Dog River, others went shopping. Eventually everyone made there way to Roosevelt.  I got there around 11:00.  Mike and Gerry were there watching the wind build, but none of our group were out yet.  Everyone got out, and everyone had a great day.  Cynthia started on a 3.2 and changed to a 2.5.  Brad was on a 3.8, and then changed to a 2.7.   I went out on a 4.5 wing and my 899 foil and had the best sail of the trip.  I was really enjoying the swells on the far side, doing S-Turns down the waves.  After lunch I went out again, and was way overpowered.  I made it work until I crashed and my rear foil stabilizer punched through my wing.  Oops..  Fortunately I was able to sail it back with no further damage! Bernd was out on his 7m kite and had a great sail and was skimming acros...
Read more

2023-06-20 Forget me not!

Image
Bernd - ready to go! The day started off as usual with coffee at Dog River.  I was laughing at Bernd as he told us that he had left his wetsuit and harness at Moiser yesterday.  It was all neatly arranged in the old payment booth when he went to get it.  Then Mike arrived from Roosevelt and told us that he had forgotten a board on the beach.  Apparently Peter, (from BC), had called him to let him know, and Peter will deliver it tomorrow. All very funny - how could they do that.... Most of the guy's went to the Egg River Café for breakfast.  The food was good, but the service was very slow. The call was for the event site.  We arrived just after 12:00.  The wind was very light so most of the guy's rigged their 6.0 Flyer sails.  Kent was happy because he was able to try out the new 6.0 FR that he bought yesterday. Kent - proud of his new sail! I got out my big windboard, and then went to blow up my 5.5m sail.  WTF - I didn't have a pump!  ...
Read more

2023-06-23 Big Exit

Image
Stragglers Ted, Brad, Bernd, Gerry, Blaine and Andreas I woke up early, so got up at 7:30 and made myself breakfast. Blaine and Brad came down a bit later and said they were going to Dog River. I finished yesterday's blog post, and then got out my bike and jointed them.  Kent decided he would start driving.  Big Air Jim, Cam and Cynthia left around 8:00, and Big Jim and Handre had already left. Bernd, Brad, Jim, Gerry, Andreas and I all met at Dog River, and then headed across the street to Bett's.  None of us were in a particular hurry to leave.  Temira's forecast was for sailable wind starting around 11:30.  We figured we might be able to get in a short session before leaving, but I think every one was thinking of leaving today. We all went down to the event site to see what would happen.  Suddenly a line of whitecaps came down the river - like magic! The wind picked up so we all went into a rigging frenzy!  Equipment flying and luggage unloaded from...
Read more