Friday, August 28, 2009
Woohoo, test sail!
Well I finished the windsurfer rig, and took it out for a spin today. We never realised how windy it was until we got to the lake! Good thing it’s a pretty small sail.
Everything held and the sail performed great. Me, not so much :-) Windsurfing is hard. I got a couple of good runs, one time a seriously fast reach. Very exciting, and then you fall off. I found out I can’t sail downwind at all in this kind of wind. So I just go on a reach/upwind sort of thing, fall off, sit on the board letting it drift downwind some. And then sail back again.
Did I mention the water is freezing cold? It is.
There was one unfortunate mishap. I suddenly couldn’t sail the thing anymore. So I drifted in to shore. Turns out the tail fin broke off :-( Completely gone. It floats so I’m hoping it will turn up. That was the end of windsurfing for today.