Beautiful windsurfing today from the Yacht Club on Mecox Bay, fully powered on a 5.5. Mecox is not actually a bay, for the record…it’s a “brackish pond” which gets its fresh water from the sky, and salt water from storm breaches and when the local engineers make a cut between Mecox and the ocean.
The pond has been drained in the last week or so…there’s usually only about eight or so feet of beach at the Yacht Club. I whacked one fin pretty good before switching to a beater fin. If you’re interested in sailing Mecox, the closest wind meter that reflects conditions is at Shinnecock inlet. Note that this sensor is on a tower about 30 feet high, and when the water is cold and the wind warm, as it was today, the meter may read 5-10 knots more wind than what you’ll get on the water.
The Yacht Club is not a yacht club either. There may have been one there once, but now all that stands there is a dilapidated boat shed overgrown with reeds, and what looks like old racks for crew boats off to the side.
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