Utah Windriders Association

3rd "no wind" day in a row. My arms are getting tired.

Matisse and I got there just in time for thunder, lightning and rain. But that was all to the (nearby) south. But I was too chicken to go out. Duane, Emmanuel and Jim were rippin' it up. By 9:00 AM the storm developed and we got an hour of right-in-our-faces thunder, lightning and rain. Duane and I were chatting by the rail when the second big bolt hit nearby. We both backed away instantly. By 10:00 the sun came out. Duane led the charge back out for a while. Matisse and I followed, 4.0 and 5.7. We both got clobbered. Flattened everything and went out again. Got clobbered, but Mattie got to practice waterstarts and fleeing for shore. I was wondering what to do next, eyeing the 4.7 I also had rigged. But "just for fun" went out on the 4.0. Geez, perfect! What's up with this? Solid (flattened) 4.0 with more wind on the other side. Not your dust-cloud-in-the-sky-switching-to-calm Grantsville either. Just a solid wall of 4.0 with 3.7 on the other side for over an hour (ck out the G-ville wind record - 31-37 mph). Whoa! Never seen this before. Left at 12:00 to go to work. Wow.

I've had a couple sessions sub 4.5 at Grantsville... They leave you amazed and dazed, so unexpected when those happen out at Grantsville... I should have snuck out there this AM... I might have been able to. Actually no, I wouldn't have, so once again I have to vicariously enjoy a session.

I swear I'll get the next one!

Did you stay on the 90 liter? Did Duane bust out the Blue Quatro?

Wow Rick you must have been in your teens when that happened because I've have not seen you in years. Next windy day is tomorrow, see you then

dawn patrol, on the water 6:45 5.0 . first hour best wind, lit to over. cool red sun rise. sucked rushing to work at 9:00.love that place for port lay-downs .

Yeah, Rick, stayed on the 90. That's smallest bd I have. Not Gorge-board-endowed like y'all.

Duane was sailing his new Tabou-does-everything-Rocket, but was done (probably 2.5 hrs!) when I went out on the 4.0. I don't know how he kept it on the water even during his last sesh after sailing so long, but was tearing it up.