Metro Late 9m Short and Sweet

Missed most of good 9m day. But worth it for an hour powered on the 9. Weeds made the first 10 minutes on Duke a nightmare. Mako only going forward. 

Wednesday Eve Carbon rolling Bloomer.

Still love these wheels. So light and quick. 

Caseville Saturday all day blow- with my gear blow ups

Saturday 9:30am rigging a 7 - sunny and waves - there’s nothing better. 20-30+ barbell winds with a predicted mid day lull. Tough launch with dead onshore wind and chop everywhere but once out it was solid 7m and Jester fun until... the OR chicken loop snaps landing a huge fast jump inside the breakwall. Total failure and immediate kite flag out and subsequent wrap up and switch to the Naish bar. Ok no damage and I’m back out on the 9m now slashing up the coast heading to Oak Pointe. Then... snap again the harness rope line breaks and the kite flies 100+ downwind. It was so powered it released the flagging leash line. Luckily Craig just down wind and grabbed kite just before it hit the shore. Still long swim into shore (thankfully onshore) through waves and then long walk back to CV beach park. Back out again lastly for 30+ winds on the 7 again and now on the Mako. Big waves now but sadly still choppy and a mess. Fun none the less to cap off 5+ hours on the water. Finally a great day on the small stuff. 

Dreaming of more of this. Thanks Julie Beadle

Lonnnggg DTE Drive well worth it.

Sunday 1pm on trail and miracle parking spot open up front. 81 steamy degrees and pure sun with dusty and sandy singletrack. Loved the backward direction day. Long drive and long ride. Carbon hoops continue to be so fast and light. Love the upgrade. 

MB thank you for delivering some fun

Windy everywhere with the thumb sailors getting some big SW winds... what about us here?! 

10-15 forecast goes SSW 20-23 and I literally made it happen with leaving all my smaller gear at home. Fun on the Duke and 11 Pivot sharing water with JB on 14 and making it look easy. Was hoping to foil but think I needed my 9 or 7 which were sitting at home...

Gotta get out Mid-week: Light and fast - love the wheels.

Carbon Hoops help a lot

Wow, lighter faster better. Super stiff and lively at speed. Really loved the hubs and the wheels. Quiet and solid on a dry (even after am rain) IL blue and yellow loop. Wishing I did this long ago. 90mm width even better that 80’s with the Lou/Bud tires now switched. 

MB on UFO and Finally Foiling home

My thoughts: UFO strutless got about 40 minutes on it with Duke in 12-18 winds... easy to fly, looks small for 9m, low aspect C shape, super light, good pull in water starts, pretty light bar pressure, effortless drifting of course, really great in downloops but... slow in turns, couldn't get it to pivot, constantly want to fly upward to the sky, sits deep in window sometimes felt like I was outrunning it, if you pull it to the ball it will back stall - needs to breathe (not sheet in and go) and last I could feel LE flex a lot when It gusted and I cranked on bar-pulling the ends in together.... The LE on it is actually very large diameter too and I had it up to 10 PSI. Anyway fun to try but not for me even on foil - the 10m boxer got the job done today when I switched.

Almost 6pm and down to beach with JB and Charlie to foil and it was perfect 10m. Got in some great long runs and some jibes. Only compliant was weeds! They get on foil and you can't fly it. Seeing TJ on boat and trying to sail around him was fun too.

Sugar Saturday at DTE

8:30 and the lot is nearly full. 67 degrees dry and sunny. Finally on Sugar Loop - so good I'll do it twice next time!