The Puffin has dedicated a fair amount of space over the winter to the topic of cold weather windsurfing. We’ve demonstrated that the Rule of 100 is for pansies. After sailing through ice, we checked out sailing ON ice. Jeff and I have taken to traveling with thermometers to see just how low we can go (best record: air plus water temp = 64.5.)
But up in Norwalk CT, Chris has been sitting on the sidelines. The footstraps on his boards are bone dry. He prefers his sailing waters (the Long Island Sound) neat…no ice…but is still eager to get his season going as soon as possible, within reason. He writes:
All your recent articles about cold water windsurfing has got me anticipating the time the water actually warms up so us less crazy intermediate sailors can get out there relatively safely. Because I end up waiting almost 6 long winter months for the water to warm up, I spend a lot of time thinking about at what date the water is warm enough to finally go out. Every year I try to push the beginning date earlier and the ending date later as I get better and spend less time in the water. So in all that time I have had to think about when the water temperature hits an appropriate temperature, I have come up with some graphs that show the average water temperature over the course of the year.
Cool, Chris (um…we mean “very interesting”) this is probably more scientific than the tea thermometer I carry around! Keep us posted so that the non-crazies have a point of reference (or come down to Long Island to join the lunatics.) 
May…could be iffy, depending on your wetsuit.
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