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Well, the stormy part on Sat went by early and it turned out to be a good day with a moderate-to-strong W wind. Warm, sunny, great day for Erie, Ontario, Oneida. Alas, on Friday I found out about an RFP that I really have to send in an application on behalf of a client, and it’s due next Friday. End of windy weekend…
After writing all day Sat, I did a modest bike ride, because that I could fit in. On Sun, since the Fx was for NW, I was thinking Myers Point on Cayuga from ~2-5 PM, hoping for the peak. Got held up a little, arrived at Myers at 2:30, only to discover that it had gone N and was offshore over the bluffs above Myers. The Ithaca kiting gang was making the best of it, but this is the Achilles Heel at Myers and I would have none of it. So I headed to Taughannock Falls and got there shortly after 3 PM.
Wind there was really swinging up and down (on Cayuga, that’s like saying the sky is blue). Also, at T-Falls there is a wind-tunnel type of effect on the point, so it’s often windier on shore than offshore and hard to judge. I rigged the 5.8 and tested it on the shore and couldn’t fully sheet-in so went to the 4.7. VERY VERY few days on Cayuga that I’ve pulled out the 89 L board (I think 3 or 4 in 9 years of living here). Sinkers are a NO NO on Cayuga Lake, so I had some trepidations but went for it.
Went out on the water and didn’t have enough power to get going, so I schlogged back in for a sail adjustment. With a deeper set, I got it going and ended up with about 1 hour and 45 min of 3.7 – 7.5 wind, but mostly in the 4.5 – 6.0 range such that with careful jibe selection I was able to keep planing almost all the time, the swells were 1 to 1-1/2 feet but nice, smooth and wide for jibing. In a couple of really overpowering sections where it was 3.5 – 4.0, I got some nice floater jumps, making it one of the best sessions I’ve ever had on Cayuga. Boy, there’s just not much in life that’s like being dialed-in when it’s 4.5. Very hard to beat that.
A shout out for the Cayuga Windsurfing Club, which had a clinic today for beginners. Tough day to be a beginner! When I started that clinic, years ago and for every year I ran it, we never had any wind. Zero to 5, glassy water. When I ran it, we had 25 – 50 participants; today, I understand they had 25 and 9 on the wait list, so windsurfing is attracting beginners in Ithaca (I only wish we had less challenging wind conditions).
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
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