Easy Hero Sailing

Sunday 5/27/2012, Lil Glen Lake

Storms in the morning brought gusty inland lake conditions, Lake Michigan wasn't quite enough with a solid marine layer of stable air holding the winds down.

Finally around 2:00 the sun came out and the warm front moved in creating strong gusty warm winds over  Glen Lake.

With SE winds from 10-30 MPH directly onshore or down the shoot, at Lil Glen it made it hard to get out and harder yet to get in. 

Rigged and got on the water by 2:30 with the 5.5 and 100 liter RRD.

Once I got out through the narrow channel and into the deeper water the conditions were a blast I could sail from the sandbar on the north side to sandbar on the south side which is a short distance maybe a quarter mile at the most so lots of jibing and hero jibing it was. Flat water on the shallow sandbars and nice chop in the deeper water between the sandbars.

A 4 hour non stop session in up and down conditions..

Sailed 4 hours from 2:00 - 6:00.
Gear: 5.5  Ezzy SE and 101 liter RRD FSW.

Conditions: On Shore SE winds, 5-30 mph, flat water at the sandbar jibing marks and chop hoping in the deeper middle section

Weather: Air mid-80s, sunny sky, water mid-60s.
Wind: SE all day.
Schooled:  Just plan old blasting along, chop hoping and hero jibes.
Video: Easy hero jibes from a boom end view.
Picture: Chop Hopping