J-Bay - Grant leads the way, 130l, 8.7 Z-1

[DimitriMilovich]

Emmanuel, Grant, Tom Smart and I all arrived punctually just before noon, certain we'd timed it right, but the wind was light. Grant rigged in his its-gonna-blow way. Emmanuel and I napped in our cars, in our we-need-a-nap-before-the-big-blow way.

Grant started getting some rides on his 8.5/Seatrend and suckered us all out, just in time for it to die to faint ripples. Various small dark clouds cruised over like the space ships in Independence day. We sat around and jawed, interupped by the very cool sight of an osprey diving and snaring a fish in the little bay to the East. Never seen that before! That was worth the drive right there for me. Also saw a couple terns. Anyway, things got slow and I started de-rigging. Just before I let the downhaul loose (my point of no return), a windline appeared from the dam. Tom was first out on his new spiffy JP X-cite and got us excited. We all hauled ass onto the water and rode for the next 45-60 minutes in a white-capped J-Bay. Patrick, who had showed up late, had timed it perfectly and got on with us. Almost continuous screaming reaches. We finally pulled in ahead of dark curtain of virga coming over the dam and called it good. I left at 3:00. Maybe Grant and Tom got some more??

We have Grant to thank for getting us all out there. If we hadn't rigged, we wouldn't have stayed and we woulda missed it. Yippee!