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Sunday, August 1st, 2010Why is it when a windsurfer finds a new spot to launch from they like to call it their secret spot. Do they think no one can see them on the water? A new secret location I’ve been windsurfing at is on the Maumee River a couple miles south of Grand Rapids Ohio on Route 65. From Monclova it’s only an 18 [...]
There goes the neighborhood.
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010New London Ohio Reservoir Rendezvous Regatta There goes the neighborhood is what they thought I bet when I arrived in my vintage trailer to compete in the first annual New London Ohio Reservoir Rendezvous regatta. Because I was doing the scoring I asked for a camp lot closest to Windsurf Point with power. Nellie the camp manager put [...]
Windsurfing Racing Newbies Wanted
Monday, June 21st, 2010Talk to any windsurf racer and they’ll agree that we need more people in the sport competing in regatta events. Attendance at windsurf events has dropped off the last decade as the number of windsurfers with the appropriate gear for racing has dwindled. At the Grosse Pointe regatta I heard Ted S. talk about a windsurf racing format called “One Design Team Racing” . After I gave it [...]
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 [...]
Spring Cleaning!
Monday, January 25th, 2010This is the time of year I get itching for Spring and the sun to come back to Northwest Ohio. We got a ways to go but May is just three months away now. I might get in on a Hatteras trip in April which would be great. In any case it won’t be long until I [...]
Maumee Bay’s Sand Bar
Monday, October 26th, 2009Last summer while taking a bit of a long distance cruise on the Mistral Prodigy I managed to run aground in the middle of Lake Erie. I knew the bar was there but it lurks so far offshore it’s always hard to know just where it’s at. Also the muddy waters in the bay can make spotting [...]
3 Lost Days
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009Somehow I’ve been lucky to not have been selected in the past for jury duty. The first couple of summons I did get I got excused because I had already had airline tickets for a vacation. However this last time I had no choice but to show up at 8:15am on a Monday morning for jury duty. [...]
Wash and Wax
Sunday, August 16th, 2009I‘ve used my Prodigy 8.5 Comp sail a bunch this season and it was time for a wash and wax job. You might be saying what the heck is he talking about. Well for a long time I have used the Zip Wax Car Wash by Turtle Wax on my windsurf sails. The process is quick and it leaves a [...]
Summer Time is Good
Sunday, June 28th, 2009For Sunday June 28 the weather forecast was for some brisk winds west late afternoon but it was already white capping hard when I pulled into the Maumee Bay State Park beach parking lot around 1:00pm. I could see there were lulls so I rigged up my 6.5 to go play. About 45 minutes later a huge long gust hit me that probably a 4.5 [...]
Board Caddy Contest
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Wide style boards like the Prodigy are not so easy to carry and I have a good 75 yard walk from the parking lot to the water at my favorite spot. After a long afternoon of windsurfing with wet straps and some head winds that Prodigy is a real beast to carry across a hot sandy beach. The last couple seasons [...]
NCSKG – 2009
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009The North Coast Stunt Kite Games were hosted by the Black Swamp Air Force kite club at Maumee Bay State Park July 17-19, 2009. I believe this was the 27th year. The games are a nice diversion for me from windsurfing though I was working. I set up a small canopy and sell a few kites. I also [...]
NABX 2009 – most wind ever
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009The 2009 NABX (North American Buggy Expo) held March 28 – April 6 on Ivanpah Dry Lake at Primm Nevada had the most high wind days of any of the NABX/SBBB events I’ve attended to date. This was my tenth NABX and I got my fill of high speed buggy riding in. A new NABX kite buggy speed record was set by a Dutch rider of 77.4 mph [...]
What does A moe`ka mean?
Friday, December 5th, 2008.!. S Frankie and Johnny dvdrip Footloose video Train buy ince last summer a post on a windsurf blog in town has tagged us as “garage shop wannabees”. I’m not sure what that means exactly but an Internet based home business is what Amoka is, has been since 1993 and will continue to be. I guess the poster is getting [...]
Repair Job
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Aloha, Scooby-Doo movies After windsurfing near one handed most of last summer I finally got up the nerve to let the medicine men fix my wrist. Carpal tunnel caught up with me after 30 years of driving a keyboard and a mouse along with 23 years of windsurfing and 10 years of power kiting. After a few minutes [...]
Early Christmas gifts to myself
Saturday, October 11th, 2008I‘ve been power kiting since 1997 but never personally owned my own big water kites for kite boarding for a couple reasons. For one thing those new big kites are extremely expensive. My personal preference is to spend my time and money on windsurfing and I’ve not had the time in the past to take up yet [...]
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