7/10 Saturday G-ville 6.7 Sumo 105l

[DimitriMilovich]

Ken was on the water just a little after 7:00 with his Sailworks Retro 9.0, plenty powered. I dithered a little longer. 8.7? "No camber inducers, Grasshopper." 7.4? "Grasshopper, what did I say?" OK, 6.7! Slogged a little bit, then started getting rides. John Freed joined us on his 7.5 and it was just the three of us and 45 fishing boats. Ken sailed closed enough that one crew almost jumped overboard when their eyeballs couldn't pop out any more. No really, we were good little sailors. Upwind of boats going upwind, downwind of boats going downwind. No line hookage and got some nice waves. Kept passing one boat with Mom, Pop and little Joey all fishin' together.

Joey: "Dad, how come we don't do that sailing thing?"
Dad: "Son, they never catch any fish."
(a little later)
Joey: "Dad, when are going in?"
Dad: "When I catch my limit, boy, not a minute before."

One nice guy on the beach by us did catch his limit and was off to fry 'em up for breakfast by 7:30. I complemented him on how fast that was and then he pointed out that he'd been out there for 3 hours already. Me: "Oh". But fresh trout for breakfast did sound good!

Sailed for a good 1 1/2 hours, reasonably powered, but 7.5, and bigger boards, was clearly the call. John and Ken would occasionally sail circles around me, but as they whizzed by would offer words of encouragement and support. Least that's what I assume, I couldn't hear. Thought I heard some laughter, but wasn't sure of that either.

Died off at 9:45. Pretty fun morning all in all.

[george ward]

It looks like the real wind came at 12:45 untill 2:45 , very unusual for Grants, I guess no one got it?

George Ward

[Sarah Ranes]

this is a bit confusing....the wind log, on the meso, from yesterday, looked like it was crankin. I expected people to be on 5.0's, and small boards. Is it just cause the meter is up high? Also unusual, was that it looked like it blew all day. guess we missed it. glad that others got rides.

[DimitriMilovich]

George is right, that 12:00-2:00 is very unusual. Sometimes G'ville will do that if a little front can keep the sea breeze from the GSL at bay. I left before then, so don't know what really happened. (Did Mom and Pop and Joey finally come in so Joey could get back on his Nintendo?)

One thing I think you have to to look at is the wind speed listed, not the gusts. I was out there Saturday, and looked at the wind record when I got back. Pretty clearly the wind speed is what we were planing on, the 17-19 mph, not the higher and short-lived gusts which in some cases were coupled with lower wind speed from 9:30 on. Although the gusts went higher at 9:45 or so, I can tell ya that it was getting pretty flat. And you're probably right, Sarah, the gusts may spin that little anenometer faster because they're perhaps higher off the ground than the steady wind.

People think that G'ville blows later in the day than it does, just because the gusts, in the exciting blue text, still show such high numbers. (And what self-respecting sailor's eye, like mine, isn't drawn to high numbers!)

But my experience on the standard G'ville cycle (whatever that really is) has been that after 10:00 or so, it usually starts to die down. Big gusts still come through when they can overpower the incipient north flow starting to come off the lake, but the average wind speed has already dropped seriously and without that, we're schlogging most of the time. I've sat there after derigging, watching folks who are still out at 11:00 and you can see the schlog-white knuckle-schlog cycle clear as day. And by then, it's mostly schlogging and time for the root beer freeze at the A & W!