UL, Marina south of Saratoga, 8.7, Roberts

[DimitriMilovich]

Now Carl has me so confused, I don't know where I sailed today. Anyway, it's at the end of the white fences around the development some many miles south of Saratoga. You know, the one we've all been sailing at, with the guardless shack and the tire rippers you don't back up on, and the christmas tree farm (?) and the lawn and the picnic table by the launch and jetties. Whatever.

1:30 saw good 8.5 conditions but as soon as I got rigged (first time this year, an hour later), the wind started dropping in the classic ULake style. Pretty dead by 3:00, but what the heck, I was rigged and went out, not wanting to spend another hour pulling the Formula gear together (which would've worked much better to get me upwind.) Scabbed my way upwind a bit and got some rides, but had to work pretty hard. Got a few well powered rides the closer I got to El Nautica (Carl -- just Google it dude, it's upwind from wherever I was). (Hey, I just did. Found this UL management plan: http://www.ffsl.utah.gov/SovLands/utahl ... Report.pdf )

Got some rides in closer to shore, as usual, but had to ride waves to pump onto a plane. Heading east was hard to get going. Came in at 4:00 to see Rick Mclain rigging. I'm hoping he got a few rides before it died.

Anyway -- we sure lost some wind having to move 2 miles downwind from Rocky Pt. Gotta find some way onto the water upwind somewhere for days like today. Coming outta Lehi to Redwood and going back 3 hrs later, it was clear there was more wind up there than where I was.

Bottom line was that I continued my streak of getting rides on my birthday, although I had to work much harder than usual. Smiles regardless. Split early to go have a bar-bie up in City Creek with Matisse.

[RickHeninger]

Pretty cool article D. I scanned through a lot of it. Read some things that I knew. Read some things that I didn't want to know! And finally came across windsurfing on page 60. Pages 51-65 or so are pretty interesting about the recreational usage and history of usage. The name of that Bay is Pelican Bay Marina... PBM.

[Carl Christensen]

I'm going back to the previous nomenclature. Rocky Point needed a UWA key to get through the gate and Pelican is as described per Dimitri. It's the one with the grass and the tire rippers.

Were there weed problems with the Roberts for you? I'd rather not have to get a weed fin.

[DimitriMilovich]

Hey Carl,
No weed fin required. All the rushes/weeds were blown into shore. I did often see what I though was a floating rush, but they were almost always vertical, just 1-2" of reed poking up out of the water. Least that's what I think they were. Maybe they were little submarine periscopes, but even slogging, I didn't get torpedoed.

[Carl Christensen]

no weeds for me either, even with Sarah's 50cm dagger.