The marine forecast said:
"NW winds 10 to 15 kt with near shore gusts around 25 kt."
I've never seen "near shore gusts" in a forecast before. Googling the term provided no help, nor
did Peconic Jeff (who wasn’t available to sail, though perhaps he’ll weigh in
here and let us know what “near shore gusts” means. ‘Cause I’ll tell ya, it didn’t seem like we were
getting gusts so much as lulls.)
Still, it was a beautiful Saturday morning at Sebonac Inlet, as I joined
Scott, Christian, Keith and Andre windsurfing (John Hulse put up a kite)…a
small group for a windy Saturday. Sebonac was uncharacteristically flattish, with
no signature ramps (not that Scott wasn’t jumping anyway). We started with
5.2ish sails and midsized boards, but after an hour or so the cheater boards
came out, and a half hour after that the bigger sails followed (me lit on the
6.2.)
With no jumping to be had I went for carving freestyle,
letting the sail size dictate the moves. With the 5.3 I worked on duck tacks (hit none,) and
duck 360’s (hit none) and on the 6.2 backwinded jibes (hit a few) push tacks (same) and carved 360’s (hit
most). Fortunately the water
wasn’t too cold, I was toasty warm in a 4/3, and really, who minds falling at Sebonac?
The near-shore lulls brought the sesh to a halt
shortly after noon.
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