“That’s the most wind I’ve sailed in years,” Scott declared, after tailwalking in to the beach at Sebonac Inlet on Sunday. It was crazy windy. We were mostly on 3.7’s and 3.4’s, and LIT. Frank, Anders, Peconic Marty, Scott, John’s Natalie, Ford, and vanderWolf and YT were all going for it. The one saving grace was that the wind was steady…usually when it’s 30+ big gusts and lulls are part of the package. While there were some sustained gusts (minute long) there were no lulls, and this allowed for good use of sheeting out.
I pulled off no water jibes (was beach jibing on starboard for the most part) instead simply rounding up and laying down the rig, which was perfectly comfortable in the shallows of low tide. 39 degrees air temp (I should have been in a drysuit…was in the 5.3) and 35 mph winds…it were proper chilly!
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