Holiday Inn

Checked out the sailing from the Holiday Inn on Saturday. Fun 4.7 session, although should have been on 5.3. Worth a visit.

Booty

I recently started to wear booties in the waves. The culprit was scar tissue on the top of my foot that would regularly rip off leaving a fleshy bleeding hole, especially when jumping. It's not the first time I've had foot issues either. My first trip to the Gorge the tops of my feet turned to giant scabby sausages. And there is more. WARNING!!! Close your eyes if squeamish.

Kicked the reef:

JP footstraps:

Did this one on day 3 of a 7 day trip to Baja:

So now I'm all about booties, especially on windsurfing trips. Honestly, I still think they look uncool, but if this guy can wear them, anyone can.

If Only I'd Known!

I just found some pics of Timo Mullen sailing at Redcar. Scroll to near the bottom of this link to check it out, one of the pics is below. Looks awesome right?

This spot is 15 minutes from where I grew up. If only I'd known it could go off like that! Next time we visit the folks, maybe I'll pack the wave board.

Surely not my home spot?

Saturdays Session II

Carbon copy of 2 weeks ago. Except this time it was thoroughly splendid fun. What a difference a good mood makes. Rode my shiny new 5.6 Echo all day. Twas perfect.

Saturdays Session

After some 6.0/5.3 action at Bird I was kinda cranky and disappointed with my day. A couple of margaritas later I reflected on the day and maybe it wasn't all that bad after all:

First run, I plane off the beach, fired up to be sailing for the first time in a month. BAM, perfect spock. Quick pump back onto the plane into a fast tack. Heading back in nicely powered, carving 360 in the straps. OOH feels good. Heading out again, perfect spock 540 BOO YAH!, planing duck gybe, upwind 360... classic Bird. Didn't make any grubbies though.

So yeah, not bad, I guess.