Day 29 of the 2014 season: New Venue - Maple Bay AKA Petabago Pond

Nothing beats waking up to 76 degrees, breezy , sunny conditions with the wind forecast looking promising.
Decided to head over to a secret spot? Called Maple Bay located on the east shore of east bay.
A quarter mile hike carrying all your gear from the parking lot to the launch site. A mosquito infested hike wearing a rubber neoprene suit, carry 30 pounds of kite gear man you got to love this sport to do this.

Once I got to the site I saw about 8 kites flying, 17, 15s, 12s and one 11M. I rigged my 11M on the wet sandy shore facing south. Had help from Jay to launch.
Found more wind up on top so the going was good. Kited along the south shore of the spit of land separating the main bay from the lagoon from 130-230. Easily worked my way upwind to some flat water. There I enjoyed water skiing conditions on butter water until wind lighten up.
Came in and took a break. At 300 it came back just enough for another hour of marginally kiting. Finally at 400 it was to lite to enjoy.
Never got a chance to get into the lagoon - ran out of wind and time.
Time to pack up and hike back to the car - another quarter mile hike thru the woods uphill.
Note: next time bring the boat to avoid the hike. Launch boat from Salor Park south of Maple Bay.


Open water side of sand spit

Lagoon side of sand spit
 



Highlight of the day:  extremely flat water with wind up high
TOW:   Kiting 2 hours
Gear:    11 meter kite with 140 Mako
Conditions:    flat water - driving the board up wind quite a distance
Weather:  Summer conditions, Mid 80s, sunny, water temp upper in the bay in the 60s
Wind:    Appeared mostly south 20 plus mph
Schooled:    Flat water carves