Low Wind Day
The call was for moderate Easterly winds starting about noon with the best winds out West.
After a "relatively quick" breakfast, the gang headed to Bob's Beach at Stevenson.
Ross, Cam, Eddy, Marten, Brandon and I went to Rooster Rock to try our luck at Kiting.
At Bob's Beach, the guys got sailing, but on big gear. Blaine was making it work on a 6.6m Sail, René was on his 7.5m Retro and Big Jim took out his 9.0. Unfortunately, René got caught downwind and had to do the big walk/swim.
It was a beautiful day, and was still early - so it was time for alternate activities.
Golfing was the call, so Brad, Al, Harold, and Big Jim went to the Hood River Golf and Country Club. Both Harold and Big Jim got a Birdie. Apparently, Harold did the "Birdie Dance"... it was his first ever birdie. Brad said that Harold's "Birdie Dance" was not something you really wanted to see. Apparently, all of the Birdies occurred after Al had distributed some "Aiming Fluid" (beer).
Kent and Handre went on a 27km mountain bike ride to Post Canyon, Blaine, took his road bike to the Rowena Lookout.
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| Blaine's Road Bike Ride. |
At Rooster Rock, we all got out kiting. Keeping upwind was a bit of a struggle with the wind and current both acting to flush you to the West, but the beach is long and wide open so it wasn't a problem. We all had very good kite sessions. I felt in control the whole time, and didn't lose my board once, so that is a big improvement on my last session - although this one was in light wind and very flat water.
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| Marten ready to kite! |
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| Ted's windsurf track. Much better than the other day. A walk up the beach at the end. |
After kiting, we all sat on the grass in the shade and had a beer or two before packing up and heading home.
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| Marten, Brandon, Ted, Eddy and Cam |
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| Brandon had a great day. |
The Quote of the day came from Eddy when we got back to the condo's and met up with the rest of the gang.....
"The wind blew, the shit flew, and in walked the kitesurfing crew...."
We all hung around at the condo's for a while telling stories and then went to 6th Street for supper. It was excellent as usual.
When we got back to the Condo's, we all watched the 2015 Windsurfing Video premier. I think everyone had fun watching it. Big Air Jim was even able to watch along - via Cam's phone and Facetime. Lots of Fun.
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| Big Air Jim recovering from his finger operation... watching the video with us. |
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