I was working on a bunch of projects today, including teaching Noe how to sand the wood pieces for her new art desk. After a while though, the wind started to pick up. I kept my eye on it since yesterday the wind picked up radically after 11am. Well - the weather did not disappoint! Marlon dropped me off (he went to get groceries) and I was on the water at 12:30. Wind was good enough for the Ensis 6.0 - and I rigged just like yesterday. Marlon took this picture before driving off to the Commissary - toe side inbound.
I made two runs to go down wind to line up with the channel, then spent an hour at Firsts riding nothing waves. I would have went to Seconds - but I had the HA1125 on and didn't want any reef kisses.
I got 12.88 nm in and my fastest speed was 16.1 kt (18.5 mph).
I was out pretty much at the peak of the wind - from 12:30 to 3pm. If I didn't have the 1125 bolted on I would have been overpowered on the 6.0. But with the higher speed requirement for the 1125, the 6.0 was perfect for getting up on foil fast.
I did focus on trying to open up my transitions so I can complete them. Here is an outbound jibe sequence -
I didn't have the camera on while it happened, but after the run in the picture, I was headed back out and I saw a large dark object moving through the water towards me... it was a decent sizes manta ray. I think it was more scared of me than I was of it - but after that I made sure to stay up on foil as much as I could.
Winging is SO MUCH FUN!!!!
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