5/17/07 Grantsville 5.2 85 liters

[John Freed]

Sweet!!! On the water at about 7:45-8:00 with Ken on a 5.3, I'm on a 5.2. Probably could have spent the entire morning on a 4.7 and been very happy. Great morning, powered up consistently until about 10:30-11:00 when we called it a morning (a very good morning). Mike and George joined in on the fun. Left about 11:30 as the wind seemed to be dying. Another great day at Grants, and very consistent no less.

[Emmanuel Pons]

Sweet! How did you guys know it was gonna happen?
I learned it whne I read Craig's post but obviously you guys "knew".

Any indicator? I thing I need a fix

[Mike Egan]

Sick morning on the 5.5. Too much with 117 liters and resulted in a broken boom. Of course the swap was last weekend. See you guys tomorrow, work and weather permiting.

[kenonstott]

It is funny to look back on my e-mails to John where I kept saying how iffy the wind this morning would be. We have had lots of sweet 6.0 sessions on predictions of 10-20 but never an event like this. As much as I have sailed here I have no explanation for the high winds. Basically, we saw predictions of +10 mph South on the SLC 3-day wind graphs and figured it was worth looking at early. I figured it would be 6.5 to 7.5 but both of us saw high wind on the Meso at 6:00AM and were at the lake by 7:30. If you don’t like to get up early this isn’t your lake.

I had 2 hours on the 75L Gorge sinker board and 1 hour on the 85 liter Sonic, all with the 5.3. Identical winds to Utah Lake Saturday before last but 20-30 degrees warmer. At the risk of being called delusional, the waves were darn near as big as UL too. Not as high of winds as last Saturday afternoon but definitely more sailable, filled in and very steady. For the 1st 2 hours there was no looking over the shoulder for the next windline, it was either strong or stronger and filled in shore to shore.

[RickHeninger]

I have to admit... Grantsville is one of the funnest places to sail in the mornings... You get better at your jibes etc. at Grant's than any other lake in the State... (Except RuMudsh Lake)...

Sorry I had work issues to deal with this morning or I'd have been there... Sometimes when there is going to be a strong south coming through, I've camped over night to catch it first thing... But Grantsville is a great place to sail when it's on...

[stokes]

how is the water level at Grants? is the water as cold as I remember?

Thanks Stokes

[Josh Shirley]

colder then you remember.