Tuesday 6/12/2012, Blue Lagoon
Arrived on site living dangerously with only the 101 liter board and the 5.5 and 6.0 sails in the van, the small gear stayed home, luckily I got it right. Winds were fluky from the west to northwest gusting to what felt like 25 mph. Rigged the 6.0 by 3:30 and on the water by 4:00.
Craig was contemplating if it was worth it to rig the kite due to the nature of the wind but as always he rigged the kite and went out. All around waterman John stood down a kite session and rigged his 7.0.
Larry and Harry the day crew had been sailing on big stuff for hours and ready to call it a good day. But when the fluky wind fill in they took another shot at it. The results were a broken mast for Larry and luckily just a short walk in.
By 5:30 the fluky winds died off with a lull that dropped the kites and caused the windsurfers to slog in. By 5:45 the wind direction switch to northeast and quickly ramped up to a respectable steady 16-22 mph. Just in time for Millard and Jeff’s arrival. We sailed with steady northeast winds until a lull hit around 8:00 at that time I had to wrap it up and head home. It ended up being an excellent session with some long runs out to the Clinton River and back.
Sailed Time: 4.0 hours between 3:30 - 8:00.
Gear: 6.0 Ezzy and 101 liter RRD.
Conditions: Side to side on, W-WNW-NW winds of 5-20, then on shore northeast winds steady 16-20 mph with predictable swell.
Weather: Air mid-70s, sunny sky water mid-70s.
Wind: Gusty W-WNW-NW to steady NE
Schooled: Just plain old blasting along, fun chop hoping, swell slashing and hero jibes.
Images: Jabster catching the newly formed northeaster.
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