Hey Guys,

Thinking of driving up to Clinton Lake Saturday. Among my 3 weekend choices Clinton, Carlyle or Rend it is showing the best potential for wind. I'll be bringing the big gear so wind in low 10's and gusts 10 to 25 is just fine. My question -- for a south wind is the sailboat marina the appropriate place to go. Maybe bringing my wife and I know that spot is a good one for launching and hanging out. Any advice, let me know. I'll make the call Saturday morning on if I am driving up or not.

thanks, dennis

That did sneak up on us. Thank's up the heads up, Dennis. Looks like SSW-SW wind in the 6.9 to 5.8 range. Yep, marina is the spot. I'll be out there. Water temp at the coolest spot of the lake(west side) 80 F. Bring cold water. Don't forget to record some GPS speed.


The dot is calling.




Clinton Lake Forecast



Euro Model Gust Forecast

Reid,

I'll make the call in the morning. Could be Carlyle, Rend or Clinton for me. Right now you got the best forecast out of all of them.

Stupid question. Do you guys have large fish in that lake? Just fixed a blown out fin box on my board -- hoping not to have that happen again. Broad reach on with the 9.3 caused a big stop. Fin box took all the energy. My formula fins are too vertical and have caused many wrecks from fish hits.

With this forecast I am thinking my 9.3 or at best the 8.4. We'll see what wind blows, i'll bring stuff down to 5.9 just in case. I like to sail well overpowered with major downhaul.

I'll have my garmin gps, i'll charge the battery tonight.

thanks, dk

Yep, you've got lake options.

I've been windsurfing Clinton Lake since 1985 and I've never hit a fish or heard about anybody hitting a fish at Clinton. We don't have any Asian carp.

I'm watching the weather too and will post updates.

Update: Downgrade, and they put rain on it in the afternoon. .

Clinton Lake Forecast

Update #2: And another downgrade. . As of right now I'm not going.

Clinton Lake Forecast

Reid -- thanks for all the responses.

I went to Carlyle, was good day. The wind really kicked up at the end of the day to 18 to 20. I was on the 9.3 at that point and too exhausted to rig down.

I keep my activities on Strava -- link to the first workout is here for your enjoyment. Hope we get to sail together, i'll come up when the wind is up north and not down south.

www.strava.com/activities/3646159654

That was the smart move. Clinton, I saw on the radar, got hit by storms from about 2:00pm on. The rise in elevation approaching the lake kicks off storms easily. Carlyle can't be beat with its up to 8 miles of fetch and 3.5 mile reaches. Solid wind. And you get the whole lake to yourself. You have to go to Lake Michigan to beat that. Carlyle also doesn't have any Asian carp. I did have a friend that hit a regular carp at Carlyle one time. That's a cool GPS track on the day.

Feel free to post a speed screengrab for any 2020 speed you might have.

2020 speed thread: windsurfillinois.com/index.php/forum/win...-freaks-2020-contest


Also...

Breann is looking for windsurf pointers/instruction to get better on Rend Lake.

Thread:. windsurfillinois.com/index.php/forum/win...rn-il/1043-rend-lake