Saturday Dead East Lex and late rain ends the Wind Streak at 5

Back up for Saturday afternoon and now solid east 20-35+ with waves building tight and tall with gusty blasts. Started on Mako due to huge shorebreak but quickly moved to Duke with the 9m Pivot back in the groove. Straight along coast for something new here but still easy getting back upwind. Again more heel side slash work on tack back. Also crashing inside impact zone finally got me to not look at all at kite when waterstarting strapless. You get locked into watching the kite fly but when not doing that you can look at the board and the incoming sets. You learn lots when you put together so many good days. Let's hope it happens again soon
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Some Friday video!

Friday more Lexy.

Friday we kite and got almost 7 hrs. On new 9m Pivot and Duke. More east today- ENE 20-35+ with inside smooth faces and tons of down the line curling 3-7'. Mostly cloudy with peaks of sun and temps in 60's. Could have used 7m but the depower and predictable nature of the Pivot worked well. Very happy with the upgrade. Really got some foot switching nailed and carving the Duke heel side on wave faces. Also carving toe into oncoming wave faces. Great long epic day of op'd wave kiting.

Perfect Lexington Day

Epic day. 10/10. Huge waves couple 15' footers way out paired with 35+ near gales. Really good day 4.2 op'd the whole time. Classic Sun and 60 degrees with solid cool N to NE winds. The ramps were everywhere to ride and jump. Too windy to kite 9m. Most all on 7's including Keith who made some great lofty jumps right off big incoming curling bombs. 6 1/2 hours riding and that included the first 2 by myself!! More coming...

Harsens starts BIG NE week!

Great pickup 15-20 then into 30's at HI on Tuesday afternoon. NE going N this time sailing up into Muskamoot Bay for something new. Tom, Craig, Jerry and I owned the bay for almost 4 hours. 12m op'd the last 2 hours - coulda/shoulda tried the 9m Pivot but loving ripping the Duke too much. Let the week begin.

Tree Farm dusty and cool Eve ride

Always tight in the trees here but fun cool eve 1.5 loop. 15.4 miles in almost an 1:40. Only issue was rear derailleur bend and shifter repair that I'll be doing later today!

Another Solid Saturday at HI!

HI (Harsens Is. - not Hawaii, I wish) rocked with northwest winds 25-30+ all day Saturday afternoon. Perfect conditions for 9m matched with some great 2 to 3 foot rolling swell right against the coastline we sail along. Sun came out 70° and about 20 kiters ripping it up. Every time I fell in the water (which was aIot!) There was nothing but waste high clear clean water with soft sandy bottom. This is the best place to kite! - much better than any other spot on Lake St. Clair. Lots of slashing and carving on the Mako Duke.

Bloomer Tuesday.

Cool Eve 12mile Bloomer ride with the Suns going down earlier everyday. Fat bike season can't be that far away...

Lex! Great Saturday for Windsports.

8am parking lot at Lexington Marina dead calm flat water and rain. 9am winds 25-30+ and waves 3-6' and building. John and only ones out on 4.6's that start lite and quickly build to 4m. Great WS day for almost 4 hours with lots of clean spread swells and curling waves inside. Smiles galore as the sun peaks out after noon and at peak about 25 guys ripping on the water. Got 2 hours more in on the 9m Rebel and Duke to test the ability strapless in big surf. Did ok for the most part but need more work on drifting the kite. Couple huge waves I could do nothing but fall straight down the face and slack the kite. Tried 2 tacks but think I need the 12m and less gusty winds. Get the tacking down like the jibes and I'm out of the get switching so much while cruising. Shot a ton of video but that's because I left it running this time. Let's see if anything is worthy of post.... To be continued.

I'm not worthy. Highland ABC and no D.

Out of gas sweat fest with JB on Labor Day and it was labor of hills and humidity. Tank was empty quick here but started strong on the FatBoy. The stiff fork really takes it out on you as well. Sun and 85, dry and fun floating over the sand. However no way I could handle D today. Tough ride that was a killer. Bring on the cool temps!!!

Woo Tawas Magic is real... Really good.

What a spot. Tawas Point SP. Only took 20 years to sail here. Clean clear 2-4' water with sandy bottom. 15-20SW winds that felt like 10-15 but it worked well with afternoon thermals. 12m and Duke spot on with 1-3' swell on the point. Small curling waves everywhere here for winds in any direction. This place works. 20 kiters out at the height of day all loving it. Worthy of drive!!!