Saturday, September 24, 2016

Rubber legs after fast Downy from PSM

Perfect day at Lexington. Got started by 1 PM with north winds blowing 15 to 20 and partly sunny and 70 degrees. But where's the bigger winds? About 3 o'clock Craig, Tom (wavering on going but so happy we did!) and I decided to head up to Port Sanilac for the downy. Winds were blowing 18 to 22 still steady north as we launch the kites and went outside through inside PS marina break wall. Let's rock some down the line kite drifting and nice 2-4' breaking shore waves. Super fast 20 miles of jibes throughout the 10 mile run. Wind steady 20 and never changed with three of us staying pretty tight the whole way. So great going straight down win for over an hour and a half. Tons of speed and really only dropped in the water twice when I got yanked off the board going straight down wind. The Duke was perfection in carving down and up wave faces as well as letting it run. The best part was it wasn't too bumpy since the wind wasn't crazy was actually very smooth in between the waves and in certain sections were there were sandbars. A couple of areas they had to be careful because we saw big rocks popping out but all in all it was 12m perfection. Definitely the 2016 highlight of the year so far for sailing.