Play Hard or Go Home
I pretty much sailed myself to exhaustion this weekend. On Saturday I got on the water early at 11:00 with 5.8 and big board and sailed about an hour blasting around the blue, uncrowded waters on a beautiful warm sunny day.
The wind picked up – time for 5.0 and CultWave. Nice long session, not much waves to play in so I practiced my swan jibes and started trying some one-handed jumps – prep work for doing some rail grabs some day.
After lunch it was time for another 5.0 session. Wind lightened up some so it was more work. Since the wind was lighter it was more work to stay upwind – time to practice tacks and heli-tacks. My portside tacks are pretty good but my heli-tacks suck. Spent a lot of time in the water.
The wind kept getting lighter so I put the 5.0 on the big board for my 4th session of the day. More tack practice, more splashes, more waterstarts. I’d forgotten how much energy you can waste waterstarting. I have a newfound appreciation for the freestyle guys for all the splats and subsequent waterstarts they have to go through to learn a given trick.
Yesterday (Sunday) turned out to be pretty light. Got there early again which was the right call. Sailed barely powered on 5.0 and CultWave in the late morning. Then it just kept getting lighter and lighter as more weekend warriors showed up.
The wind picked up – time for 5.0 and CultWave. Nice long session, not much waves to play in so I practiced my swan jibes and started trying some one-handed jumps – prep work for doing some rail grabs some day.
After lunch it was time for another 5.0 session. Wind lightened up some so it was more work. Since the wind was lighter it was more work to stay upwind – time to practice tacks and heli-tacks. My portside tacks are pretty good but my heli-tacks suck. Spent a lot of time in the water.
The wind kept getting lighter so I put the 5.0 on the big board for my 4th session of the day. More tack practice, more splashes, more waterstarts. I’d forgotten how much energy you can waste waterstarting. I have a newfound appreciation for the freestyle guys for all the splats and subsequent waterstarts they have to go through to learn a given trick.
Yesterday (Sunday) turned out to be pretty light. Got there early again which was the right call. Sailed barely powered on 5.0 and CultWave in the late morning. Then it just kept getting lighter and lighter as more weekend warriors showed up.
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