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Steve,
The
haute cuisine appetizers that Lauralee so generously shared at Heck were just
the ticket for an extended session -- thanks again very much LL! (PS. I did
get
in trouble with my local PETA rep, but I swore it was the first time I'd
partaken of such contraband in years, so my punishment was merely to sleep on
the porch. ;-)
If
you wanted smooth instead of crunchy peanut butter, and who can blame you, not
me, I think you were most likely best off where you were... even tho Heck was
maybe a little windier.
I
just badly wanted some time in a place with a bit more wind so I could sail a
smaller turnier board and a lighter handling sail (5.3). And who knows maybe
even throw in
the
challenge of the dirt trail and pot-holed Heckscher jibe. Oddly the vintage
beat up old school Axxis 260 with it's constant curve rocker line, deep vee,
and dual
concave
seems to minimize or maybe even optimize the "mogul effect" at a
place like Dreckscher.
Stan
(5.4) was on his little Proof, Frank (5.8), Ira, Irene, Joe Rocco on his Dill,
a young bloke doing Spock-Vulcans [who wasn't Mike or Kenny], Terminator Bruce,
F-man Rob, Alan from Oz and some less familair faces were it. With the various
re-riggings and
latecomer
/ early shifts there were rarely more than 5 people on the water at a time.
Stan
was in rare dry humor form and always present at my most embarrassing moments
with comments like "what are you doing, going for a swim?" and
"what the heck do you call that maneover?"
That said, I'm about ready
for a change of venue once the effects of yesterday wear off. In the UK it was what they call a
"bog standard" (ie average) day, which kind of takes on a new meaning
at the sewer doesn't it?
P
Wind line hit the shore at 4:15 PM like clockwork. (not merely coincidentally it took some of the heavy cloud cover to clear the Heck for it to get going.) Intermittent cloud cover pretty much prevented it from building, or really going off, which it had shown signs of doing around 4:45 ish. Took the 'vintage' Axxis 260 out of mothballs and was reintroduced to the idea of user-friendly.
Heck
4-29-04
IWS,
forecasts wind to redline from 4-6 pm
(Heck
is like a bitch in heat right now, as long as the clouds stay away!)
--
Great
to see everybody yesterday and catch Heck on its best behavior, quite a tasty
setup for rampage at Honksher while the tide was still low.
Kevin,
Looked like you were more than pleased with that fast little AHD 259 wave, did
you tell Barney (dog) all about it on the way home?
Lenny,
thanks again for the old Seatrend, it still rocks, and Chuck for the back strap
converter that made it possible to convert the dual/assymetric setup to a
single strap. It was nice to be finally dialled in on a little stick with
enough wind to use it.
Squid
I saved your old footstraps in case you want to frame them! Looking forward to
getting you back on the water soon.
Loved
this day. Dialled in most of the time. Some nice slashes, some big air, all the
ingredients for fun except smooth jibeatoriums.
P
Uh
oh! Cold, gloves, hood, gusty, holey. Rigged a 5.5 should have rigged a 6.1.
Geaorge
was ripping like the Energizer Bunny. We’d both been powered when I hit the
water, but the wind backed off and my sail was no longer big enough. Tried to schlog thru a few lulls with
dismal results. Jill was in the same boat as me.
Wind
filled in again later and 5.5 was OK except there was a real tendency to drop
downwind ,which didn’t make sense since I had a pretty large 10.5” fin on. Oh
well, chalk that one up in the practise session ledger.