Tuesday, Sept. 21, Marysville Chill in the heat too!

Semi good day 6.2 Alpha and 107 FSW, powered and sunny high of 90. MB, Tom, and Keith and I had nice day on the river. 15-20++South but it never really kicked in fully....

Monday Sept. 13 Afternoon Breezes into BL.

Pretty good evening sesh on the 6.2 Search and the 107 FSW at Blue Lago. Tommy and I right on time for the 4pm west kick in with the right gear. Sun and breezy 15-20+ on a clear weed free side of LSC - Anchor Bay. Powered up ripping all the way to the other side and getting in 2.5 hours before it dropped off. Well worth the drive and not going to Metro. Suns going down much earlier it seems these days...

Saturday Sept. 11 back to biking @ TreeFarm

Novi mtb today. 10.54 miles in 1:03 with one nice fall in a sand pit. Wishing there was winds like last weekend.

Sunday Sept. 5 Classic Little Harbor Day

Dream Launch at Menonoque Beach

Brent Wave shredding on the 5.4M & 107FW

Shoreside fun

Using that wave face....

A great 4.5-5M NW 20-30++ day on LT Bay. John and Craig learn how good it can be when the directions right and the pre-fall winds kick in. Classic sunny sky, puffy clouds and 70's temps makes for perfect formula for strong NW blow. Lots of ramps and long swell in the 4-8' range made it a super sesh and then you got all the shorebreak on the inside play on. Loved it on the 5M Search all day overpowered with the 85 liter FSW. Great bookend to a windy Northern MI weekend. Thanks to Brent - the winds return!

Saturday Sept. 4 Breakwall Breakdown

Great day that didn't work at the Petoskey Breakwall. NNW winds 25-30 with the repair barges blocking the way out of the marina. Damn shame too. It was a classic day forcing us to down to the Petoskey State Park where the shorebreak was heavy and the winds weak. Probably the worst resulting sailing I've had with so much wind potential. A day to forget as there was nothing to take away from it that was really good.

Friday Sept. 3 Secret Spot Rocks (Bliss Gales!)

Wake up at 8AM on LTB - winds starting....

Jeff Degaynor into a Big Air

Hero jibing Bliss Beach

Locals said it was windiest day of the season and for those of us with very little summer sailing, it really was. Winds were SW to WSW all day at Sturgeon Bay Bliss Beach 25-35 with Gale gusts to 45. Gales sailing and great timing for Labor Day!

Brent and I started out on 5M in the AM and then quickly moved to the 4.5's and then I spent the afternoon overpowered on my 3.7. Brent found the courage to fight on with the 4.5 in nuclear afternoon winds. We had about a dozen sailors out with us all on 70-85 liter hulls and their smallest sails. Waves well upwind in the Sturgeon Bag Estates zone were 6-10 feet range and barreling often on the pointe reef (which is where I fell and got worked over the rocks). Each sesh out got shorter and shorter as the day wore on and the winds never let up. Loads of airtime were loaded as well as the down the waveface jibes. No room for error or slowing down. Schloggers were no where to be found on this day. Thank you Northern MI! Well worth the drive this time. More to come yet tomorrow.

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Big Air Time in 40+ gales

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Brent shredding it down the line

Sunday Aug. 22 Lex Looks Good...but disappoints

South Huron Bouy 8/22/10

Too bad the chart always looks good when it really isn't. Here it was North 20+ from 6AM on - signaling to me to the 1.5 hour drive up to Lexington but in getting there we find there's too much offshore NNW winds to deal with. With just JAB and I to rig we went WAY out and got about 1.5 hours in of 7M cruising. Something but not enough and it definitely doesn't cover the 3 hours of driving...

Monday Aug. 16, Finally a Metro Session

4 reasonably good hours on the 107 FSW and the very powerful 6.9 Expression. WSW-W-WNW mostly puffy in the 12-20 range gave a couple of good rise and kept me out for almost 4 hours in sun and 80 degrees. As for the water quality at Metro - it's horrible - almost criminal based on whoever is dumping overflows into LSC. Blue Lagoon is atleast clean - just wish it worked better on a west wind. Come on back winds, we need more of this stuff.

Sat. Aug. 14 Hot and Humid Mabury

JB and I did 2 fast loops at Mabury SP today on 1:26 for 13.6 miles. 7.2 mph average speed and 18.5 mph top speed. Hot, hot, hot.

2fer weekend Bald Mtn. and Addison Oaks

1 hour and 44 minutes riding 2 spots this weekend. Lots of speed and downhill. 12.9 miles with average of 7.4 mph and 1141ft ascent and 638 decent. 18.1 top speed. Addison - I'll be back. Baldie - I'll pass.