Utah Windriders Association

a fine day for many reasons, mostly because its great to see Fred and Lana arrive late, have more than enough time to teach lessons on the START and still be sailing/sitting on the beach at 730pm.

Even Carl C was teaching up a storm, in between Isonic 133 blasts on a 9.0. Imagine Carl C is so humble, so ego less his own sister (who sailed the START) was never told he was a media star in the Windsurfing June 2006 issue on Utah.

Patrick on his 3rd day did a major walk of shame from the Lower Lagoon to the Point, but never gave up, no harness, 7.0 gusts flattened him more than once.

Charles sampled DC on his Pacific 155 and informed us that "he has a season pass at Little Dell, and has sailed it 15x already". This caused a commotion since Grant M and Dimitri spin Tall Tales of the Dell, and Charles has not been posting. Even moose plane there. His penalty was to put him on a Hypersonic 125 with a 7.6 sail. During a typical wicked gust we watched in awe as he lit it up toward the beach, but it was like a dragster video where they run out of track. He was close to carving a trench when he went for the HyperEnema off the tail. Can't bust a nose since there isn't one. Luckily the Hyper is fine. Charles will not be a kiting candidate for Les Sierra, he has the Hyper fever bad now.

At 11am Jim and Mike Hill were on 6.0's long enough to get skunked within 1/2 hr. Then Carl was skunked on a 9.0 but it was too hot to sit on the beach. Layne salvaged the day on his 7.125 NX, you'd sit on one side and wait for a gust. The festering gas hogs are back and checkerboard chop was vicious. Waterline is so low Hobie's were parking trailers on the beach

yeah, it came up early and then took a short break around 1. the rest of the day it just kept coming in chunks. and not too shabby either. teach in the lulls, rally in the puffs. by the looks of jim's graph the dinner sesh must have been pleasant.

At the behest of J Dubock, I must break my silence on a fine gem of an area they call Little Dell.

I bought some used windsurfing gear in the fall and have been cutting my teeth on this miniature wind funnel for some 20 outings now. Little Dell gets a thermal that may be softer than say, DC, but if there is a good weather front juicing things up, it can be a damn good time for such locality (I live in Sugarhouse). April and May have been great.

Anyway, the gusty Sunday at DC yesterday was like my "coming out of the closet" party. It seems that I even put on a good Hyper show for John and the others, death defying as it was. I'm psyched about the Hyper, and I hope I don't continue to create pain for your eyeballs in the future.

Charles

Sounds great. I've had some fun there once or twice. So close too. Do you wear a full suit? Historically that has been a requirement.

Do you wear a full suit? Historically that has been a requirement.

10-4. I have been wearing a full suit and have been nice to anybody inquiring about the fullness of my suit. However, one of my pals was up there the other day and somebody told him he needed a full dry-suit, yet upon inspection, decided that his wet-suit sufficed for a dry-suit. Hmm... I haven't been up since to get a further word on this.

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I have gotten by with a wetsuit. I would hate to put on the drysuit this time of year. Haven't been to Little Dell in quite some time. Is there a good wind meter near the lake?