Gents
After everyone departed on Sat the weather cleared and it ramped up to a solid 4.2 w huge swell, sunny skies.
Sunday was a repeat, except it kept increasing until it was 3.8, and before you all start commenting on "it was 3.8 for skinny guys", Andreas was getting overpowered on his 4.2. Swell was massive with huge breaking crests.
Only bad part, last couple of rides for the day I trashed a brand new sail messing up a jump.....did I mention how big the port ramps were?...about midway across the river, sail is lost, rescued the rest of the rig, got drifted and self rescued to the Arlington shore and was looking at a long walk on the train tracks...plus a long wait to get picked up in Arlington....when a rigid hull private rescue boat appeared and told me that they would be back in about 15min. They were out rescuing another sailor, an older gent who was lost and there was concern that it may have been a fatality, and figured that since I was broken down they would come back, he had just been found, and give me a ride as well. Nice of them. Moral of the story, don't jump mid river in 3.8 conditions from 2m faces if you are not going to stick the landing!
Great sailing though.....
Did I mention that most of the time there was only a handful of people out on the water at Arlington.
Ross Abdurahman, P.Eng., LEED AP
Principal, Mechanical Engineering
FSC Consulting Engineers
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