Summer Soltice at Seneca

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    • #3510
      PharmaBob
      Participant

      Anxious to welcome the official start of summer last night, I took a chance that Seneca would serve something up as the front approached. Arriving at the park at 6:45, I found Brad pigging out a 12M with a nice pattern on the water and the trees hissing at me that I better rig quickly to get some. Got a great half hour on a 12M in SSW as I traced the carpet of the sun on the water as it started to retreat through a few cloud bands on the longest day of the year. Some shifting in the wind signaled a lull that sent us to the beach by 7:30 to check the radar as we enjoyed a few libations to celebrate summer’s arrival. The sailboats moored at the Yacht Club soon turned to admire a new wind-line approaching directly from the South that served up 45 minutes of the most consistent moderate southern flow of the year and pure Seneca flat-water magic conditions. My sunset drive home to the North found me gawking 2 huge fiery red thunderheads building in the the distant Western sky on the approaching weather front. Turning on final approach, a rare Strawberry full moon rising on the Eastern horizon served as Mother Nature’s beacon signaling a promising start to our FLX summer season. See you on the water.

    • #3511
      FLX Kiter Brad
      Participant

      Nice post. Seneca has certainly turned her back on us this spring after many many winter sessions scored. I need her on again as my students are lining up.

    • #3513
      windydoug
      Keymaster

      Super post Bob.  Thanks for taking the time to update us.

      Loved this:

      “I traced the carpet of the sun on the water as it started to retreat through a few cloud bands on the longest day of the year”

      wd

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