Saturday, August 29, 2020

Session 28 0f the 2020 season: Busy day at Caseville Beach

11:36 AM on Saturday, August 29, 2020

Kitesurfing Caseville

Not your typical summer day on the beach at Caseville.

30 plus kiters, warm water temps, warm air temps, WNW winds up to 40mph.

1st session on the 9M, 2nd session on the 11M and for the 3rd session 7M all with the TT.

On shore wind and waves, 75 degrees with plenty of sun shining. Somewhat disorganized swell, plenty of voodoo near breakwall. Occasionally you could find some smoothies.

Looking forward to more days like this throughout the Great Lakes.




Thursday, August 27, 2020

Session 27of the 2020 season: A solid 13M session at HI, to the slicks.

2:11 PM on Thursday, August 27, 2020

Harsens Island kite session

A solid 13M sesh which easily could have been 9M.

Rode to the south side slicks with Craig and played there for awhile, awesome fun with some big boosts.

Absolutely the hottest day of the year on the water kiteboarding. 90 degrees, partly cloudy, west winds to 25+.

Had fun riding with the rest of the crew. Craig, Trent, Keith, Marley and Wayne.




Saturday, August 22, 2020

Session 26 of the 2020 season:

4:13 PM on Saturday, August 22, 2020

Point Betsie, marginal kiteboard session

Very marginal 13M session with Russ (12M) and Wayne (14M).

Basically mowing the lawn, took a break, it picked a tad, went back out but still very marginally.

A first time for Wayne at PB, I’m glad he got a chance to kite here.

Winds from the SSW to 12-20 mph.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Session 25 of the 2020 season: A solid Pointe Betsy session

 1:24 PM on Thursday, August 20, 2020

Kitesurfing, finally a solid session at Point Betsy.

A classic Point Betsie day with it's sketchy launch and clean inside swell spaced 4 seconds apart. (That's classic PB)

Just 5-8 kiters and beach all to ourselves.

11 and 12M kites, winds 15-25 a tad more would of been sweeter.

Vince, Mark, John and others enjoyed an all day devotion to kitesurfing. 😎 and smiles all around Stormcloud for beers and dinner.





Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Session 24 of the 2020 season: Port Austin Harbor Kite Session

2:00 PM on Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Port Austin Harbor kiteboarding
Fun session, mostly flat water kiting in the harbor.
Ventured outside the harbor and found choppy conditions, voodoo chop. But east of the harbor in open water some carving swell could be found.
The mouth of the harbor had some short, clean swell rolling in. That was fun to play on. Good flat water boosts and downwind slalom runs with the kite parked in the wind. Plenty of flat water carving toe side to heel side.
Overall a good, harbor flat water day.
11m kite with the TT. Winds were north to 30+ mph.
Cloudy, some lite rain and 60ish degrees, feels like fall.



Sunday, August 2, 2020

Session 23 of the 2020 season: Harsens Island with spurty winds (Mediocre session)

4:00 PM on Sunday, August 2, 2020

Harsens Island kite session

Wind spurts, rain squalls and swamp waters.

9M with TT, rain, lightning. 70 degrees and 3 spurty sessions of squally winds.