Hybrid Racing
« Previous EntriesI-LYA Bay Week
Thursday, August 12th, 2010The I-LYA regatta this year was titled the New Bay Week regatta since it was held on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday verses the usual Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday schedule. The turnout was doubled over recent years with some 150 boats registered. I arrived early Thursday catching the 9:15am ferry over to Middle Bass Island. I got [...]
Raceboard Class – Hybrid
Friday, July 30th, 2010The past few years I’ve been promoting and racing the Mistral Prodigy. It’s a heck of a board but we will have to eventually move on to something else. I’ve now got some new links on this page going to some of the other Hybrid boards out there. In the future I’ll probably be posting news on Hybrid [...]
Battle Scars
Sunday, June 20th, 2010I did the Grosse Pointe regatta Sat June 19 and only placed 5th in a class of 8 Prodigy. I had a couple bad starts, one wreck at the start, I had troubles positioning my harness straps on the boom, made some bad decisions on the course, almost got ran over by a powerboat, my [...]
SuperLightning at Alum – Cattail June 5
Thursday, May 27th, 2010I raced my old 1985 Mistral Superlight at the Alum Creek event and did quite well even getting a second place in one race. Combined with the Prodigy 8.5 Comp one design sail the Superlight moves really great in light winds. The upwind angle I was getting was besting the Mistral Equipes and IMCOs so I [...]
New Ohio Windsurf Event
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Some BIG news is that there are TWO new MOWIND Point Series races in Ohio! The July New London Ohio regatta will be held at the New London Reservoir and Campground. New London is about 75 miles east of Toledo and a nice leisurely drive down old route 20 will get you most of the way there. The [...]
Prodigy 2001-2009
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Being a Prodigy rider and promoter I was very saddened on hearing about the abrupt end of this great product. For almost a decade now the Prodigy has lived up to it’s reputation of being a board that does it all. I surely will keep racing and riding my Prodigy and Amoka Wind Sports still has a couple [...]
3rd Place and Prodigy Future Fuzzy
Friday, September 25th, 2009Congradulations to myself #H on getting third place in the Hybrid class of the 2009 MOWIND point series of races. The award I heard is a nice MOWIND fleece top. See the complete MOWIND series results list on the Mowind.org site. If you haven’t heard by now the new licensee of Mistral windsurfing boards is Anders Bringdal. For 2010 [...]
$100,000 water front lot
Monday, September 14th, 2009It is likely that I will never afford to own waterfront property. That’s why it’s nice that the Michigan DNR lets me rent some at Higgins Lake. The South Higgins Lake State Campground by Roscommon Michigan is the location for what is usually the last windsurf regatta of the season for me. Every year that I go back it seams I add [...]
GPWC Regatta – Downhauled to the Max
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009.!. The June 21 Grosse Pointe Windsurfing Club regatta was a grueling one day event. There were ten Prodigies which was an excellent turn out and no one was a novice competitor. Usually the winds in late June are more often calm then strong on Lake St. Clair but not this day. It was hot and sunny and oh so [...]
Toledo Prodigy racing !!
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009We had 14 Prodigies registered but one no show and one I don’t know what happenned too that finished with all DNS. Anyway a group of 12 makes for a nice race and a good showing in general for one design racing. I ended up 5th overall. For trophy purpose we were able to break into [...]
Alum Creek Regatta 2009
Saturday, May 9th, 2009I managed 2nd place in A-Fleet as the Mistral Prodigy is pretty much king in light air conditions. Unfortunately several or more people that might have been there had been on Hatteras trips the previous week before. That means Alum Creek would have been their third weekend in a row windsurfing so I don’t blame them for not showing. What changed is the Ohio and [...]
Back in the saddle
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Two That-A-Boys to Mother Nature giving us two 85 degree weekend days and yet another warm day coming on Monday. That’s like unheard of in Ohio for April but I’m glad for it as that really gives the waters a kick start to warming up. I made it out both Saturday and Sunday and boy was I ever rusty. I’ve [...]
2009 Season – new Prodigy Demo board
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009I have not windsurfed yet in Ohio in 2009 but it won’t be long until Windsurfing The North Coast is back. Usually I wait till I see the water temperature has reached 57 degrees which usually happens mid May. At that temperature with air temps over 65 a light 2/3 wetsuit will do me. I hate wearing heavy 3/5 suits with matching boots, [...]
The Racing Rules of Sailing
Monday, January 12th, 2009After I received my copy of the 2009-2012 RRS (Racing Rules of Sailing) from US Sailing I decided I would actually read through them. After an hour of looking at the rules I realized I then had more questions then answers so I bought a second publication named the “Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing”. The Understanding book has a copy of [...]
Higgins Lake Regatta – Sept 6,7 2008
Monday, September 8th, 2008I take the back route to South Higgins Lake State Park in northern Michigan from Toledo Ohio. I drive down the Ohio Turnpike route 80 about 30 miles, then up Route 66 about 15 miles to Fayette where I do a quick 2 mile jag on US 20 over to US Highway 127 which takes me all the [...]
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