8/31 DCIB

[JimSouthwick]

Sundance hit double digits at 11:15 (10/19) and the SW wind started building in Charleston at noon. By 1 it's starting to look serious. Angela points out that it's pretty windy (as if I weren't already aware of that). I point out that it's also the Friday before Labor Day, so the beach will be a zoo. It'll be so much nicer next Tuesday after all the motorheads have mothballed their vessels for the season. 1:15, really ought to take a look; it'll be a zoo, of course, and I'll be back home in 10 minutes. Arrive at the beach. Nobody in the booth, no cars in the parking lot. NO CARS IN THE PARKING LOT!!! And the wind is solidly in the teens with gust to 20 or so. Mike and George arrive shortly after I do. They rig a 7.2 and a 7.5 respectively; I rig a 6.0; we're all able to plane most of the time (until the big lull at 3 anyway). John Dubock arrives a bit later, and despite hurting his knee during a 28 MPH plotergust incident on the beach, heads out on his 7.0. All in all, a keeper - and a real surprise!

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