Let every fall weekend be like this one.
Saturday 4.7 at East Landing. The swell was rolling, the jumps and jibes off of them were sweet! “Let’s come back tomorrow” everyone said.
But the winds came up…
Early word from Napeague was of sailors getting blown off the water. Scott eyed East Landing and said it was too windy. Too windy? Okay I don’t want to rig three meters, so where do we go? Longneck Boulevard!
Say what?
Word is that in days of yore this is where the likes of Scott and CD sailed. Flanders Joe and Shelley Christian and Sky Lily (Sky contemplating an Opti sesh), Chip from BK Artie Dilay Pav and more. Guys were on 4.2’s-5.0’s, and it looked like gust lull gust, but this is where the action was, so rig! The best among us headed up to Red Cedar Point, where Artie reported “Butter-smooth waist high swell and sick Port ramps.” This would have been heaven for me, but I kooked the day (forgot to put 4.7 or warm wetsuit in the van). In the 20 years I’ve owned the van I’ve always been fully loaded with sails boards and neoprene. But not yesterday. Four runs on a 4.2 and 93 liter board left me miserable and cold so I went home like a LOSER! LOL.
I dreamed of buttersmooth waist high swell all night.
(Top: Jonathan Ford launching at East Landing. Bottom: The view of Longneck beach. Pics courtesy The Art of Windsurfing.)
Comments