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The nicest spring on Cape Cod I can remember and now the summer SW winds have arrived!
Hatteras was bitter sweet this year.
Candle lighting for Charlie.
5.2 m at Isabel’s side-off wind
Good weather, good friends, good wind, good food and good sunsets, what more could you ask for?
Packing for two weeks in Hatteras.
Well it’s that time of year again. Two weeks of wind and wild weather in Hatteras. This is our 13th year in a row going to Cape Hatteras in April. It is always fun and always an adventure. We camp at Frisco woods Campground. You can sail right from your campsite and sometimes I mean RIGHT from your campsite. When the wind goes North and cranks the place floods.
Windfest is the 15th,16th & 17th at Frisco Woods. Grass roots gathering of windsurfers with bonfires nightly and the BOARD TOSS one night.
Come check it out!
If anyone is going to be down in Hatteras between the 15th and the 28th and they want to try the Panther II’s come find me at Frisco Woods or look for my big green Ford E-250 with the Chatham Wind and Time logo on the side.
Off da lip...
Out running a close out
Love the new Panthers
I am really a dog person but these cats are great!!!
I got out on my 5.2 the other day in light wind and head high waves. Dogging out, but once on a wave on the way in it was all milk and honey!!!
The new Panther’s are sweet!
In like a lion!!!
March has been real windy. The only down fall is it has only been in the mid 40’s when it’s blowing. But my new Excel 5/4/3 makes it feel like summer time.
Photos by Outcast
Cape Cod’s first cold windsurfing day…. but still fun!!
I set up my video camera on the dash of my van and just let it run. This is what I came up with. I was the only windsurfer for the fist part of the session. A bunch of other windsurfers showed up after I was done filming.
Blocktober Fest 2009
Went to Block Island ( Small Island off the East Coast) For 5 days in October. Killer 5 days! Had some good wind and waves to ride, good friends, a few beers and some great weather!! We did not get some great pictures because no one wanted to sit on the beach with a camera.
Here is a shot of one ride but we had much better rides than this.
Down the line in side-off wind.
Check out this contest!!! Talk about getting stoked!!! I want waves!!!!
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After a short warm up in Etang Salé, the 16 riders of the team contest "La Reunion Wave Classic" had 3 days in a row of intense surfsailing in hardcore conditions on the local spot "Ravine Blanche".
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The bummer summer is ending but the Great White sharks have invaded my playground!!
It was not the best wind summer on Cape Cod but I was very busy with work. I guess I should not complain. Better to have to much work these days.
So over the last two weeks Great White sharks have moved into my home sailing spot and are chomping on seals!
Not sure what to do. I know they have always been there but not in these numbers! And to see them in such shallow waters. This is right where we sail most of the time. Not so worried when sailing but if I get crushed by a wave and have to swim for my rig. Sketchy!!!!!!
SW summer winds are on the way
The first real SW warm and windy day on Nantucket sound. For me nothing beats a 4.7 session. Well ok a 4.7 session in head high waves is best but I will take a 4.7 bump and jump session any day of the week. Check out this video By Jerry Johnson (Sorry for the kite Kooks)
