Rain hit the lake. Let the skunking begin. Great day to see who and what can lower the planing threshold. Foil folks through everything at it. The drag and weight and dollars added up quickly. Massive foils, big sails. wings up to 7.0, more adjustments made than a major league baseball player at bat. Everything failed except Rick on Perry's massive foil with a fully cam'd 7.4 sail. Rick made it work, he lowered the threshold. Rick switched to his Neil Pryde Glide foil with 5.4 sail while I was out there. That was when I was just starting to get on plane with my 6.3 Freek with 102 Psycho with 24cm fin. The 4 o'clock blow. I wasn't consistently on plane but got a nice 2 1/2+ hours of sailing. We were the only ones on the water.


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Imagine taxiing for an hour on a runway and then finally getting to take off. That's Rick on foil with 5.4 sail at The Narrows up there.









The cool part is I can still leap off the water in these conditions









Schlogging back in to the cove






'till next time.




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Nice! Water so smooth! Makes me cry!
Had a nasty Tuesday on lake Michigan too with unusually cold water (~55), gusty-stupid wind band near shore (200 yards), confused chop + 3-foot swell all over the place, and absolutely no wind further out. Not even waterstart-able! ...Thank-God all my boards are floaty nowadays!

You'll have to make a trip down to the Bonaire of the Midwest. Come down for Rick's MoWind race. Drop some thoughts in his thread. windsurfillinois.com/index.php/forum/cli...-clsa-9-30-10-1#8774