Archive for January, 2008
My YouTube Videos
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Here is an easy way to view the several YouTube videos I’ve posted.
Red Cross
Sunday, January 27th, 2008T Down with Love movie full here are a few things I need to do each year to keep my instructor certification current. One is to remain active giving some lessons each year, maintain my US Sailing membership and last is keep current Red Cross certifications in CPR and First Aid. Though injuries are rare in windsurfing knowing what to [...]
Chinook Inflight Outhaul Kit
Sunday, January 27th, 2008The Chinook inflight outhaul kit is comes with the double outhaul pulley, two clam cleat kits, two Ronstan blocks, 3 lengths of rope and two handles. The cleats are held on by a plastic collar ring which is secured together using two small screws. This is not a setup you can easily move from one boom to another. [...]
Another Windsurfing Season Ka-put & IKE hits the SSC
Saturday, January 26th, 2008.!. .!. TONIGHT Bringing Out the Dead divx WEST WINDS TO 35 KNOT GALES DIMINISHING TO 30 KNOTS AFTER MIDNIGHT. A CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS THIS EVENING…THEN RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. WAVES 4 TO 6 FEET. The water temp is way below my level of liking dipping down this week to just 51 degrees [...]
Boom and Inflight Outhaul
Sunday, January 20th, 2008For the Prodigy one design 8.5 sail you need a boom that adjusts in the 7′ to 9′ or 7’6″ to 9’6″ range. Using a 6′ to 8′ boom won’t cut it as you’ll be in the last notch if you really downhaul the sail. Also when rigging up one method used to help pop the cams on is to [...]
Outhaul Pulley
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Stuntmen download Hard Rain download Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season movie Fahrenheit 9/11 ipod Blind Fury movie full A Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild dvdrip Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa video buy Blackbeard: Terror at Sea nother optional component you can’t live without is an outhaul pulley for your in-flight adjustable outhaul. Chinook makes [...]
Inspecting Cams and Battens
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Each time you rig you should take a quick look at the two cam jackets. You need to be really really really careful not to be twisting the cams when taking them on or off the mast when rigging! If you twist you can blow the threads out of the cam jacket which is made of fabric sewed together. [...]
Mechanical Universal & Downhauling
Friday, January 18th, 2008The high deck of the Prodigy makes attaching the extension to the base difficult when you are in the water if you have a rubber hourglass or tendon type joint. You might think I’m all wash up on that but believe me once you have struggled trying to hook up in waves and chop you’ll know what I mean. [...]
Windsurfers find new ways to use GPS devices
Thursday, January 17th, 2008.!. Recently I purchase on EBAY a Garmin Foretrex 201 GPS device that you wear on your wrist. My main interest in it was for the count down sailing start sequence timer on it. It has the other features found on personal GPS devices like a bread crumb trail, average and max speeds and compass. That little fun device with shipping [...]
First Race Day Feb 23rd
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Lange flate ballær II hd Whoa boy……. you might be saying ain’t that water frozen on the North Coast in February? Well right you are but it’s not frozen in Florida where us northern snow birds migrate to for a couple weeks each year. First there is a two day race in Sarasota hosted by the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. The next weekend there [...]
Kite Buggy Seat Back
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Wire bending Superlight 1 pins
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Fall is the time to catch up on those ugly little jobs you just don’t want to take time to do during the summer months. The old 1985 Mistral Superlight I got last summer was short one of the spring pin clips that hold the safety bob and mast base in the board. These clips were [...]