Mud Sailing, Anyone?

I was once in an ABK clinic in Delaware in which Andy Brandt put a finless board and rig in some shoreside "magic mud" and proceeded to teach nonplaning freestyle in the slurry.   It was pretty cool, if you are an absolute geek (as most all windsurfers are.)

But check these guys out, actually sailing through mud in Palo Alto, to get to full-on water.  They recommend short fins..."a 15cm custom cut mud fin". Read about it on the San Francisco Bay Area Windsurfing blog.

Comments

[Jon]

I thought I had seen it all - guess not!

[Brendon Quinn]

ha ha ha I used to sail there when I was younger a bunch...usually no one goes out when it is that shallow and most do not go through the mudd like that. The channel extends another fifty feet upwind and then you are out in the deep water...all six inches of it.

[Bunty]

Well as the saying goes ''Where there's a will there's a way''. It must be pretty tough on the arms going over the mud cos there is ALOT of pressure in that sail.