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Spring Cleaning!
By Scott | January 25, 2010
This 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 need to get out in the Amoka garage shop and inspect the gear and ready what I need for the 2010 season. I’m sure there are a couple universal joints I need to replace and I usually replace all the down-haul lines. Also I’m replacing my big boom. The replaced items will eventually get sold as used gear. I also have my lesson trailer to clean out and load up with different gear. Also I’ve been watching on EBAY for a used race sail in the 6.6 range. There’s lots to do!
Things have changed a bunch at Amoka Wind Sports for 2010. Early last fall I closed out all of the power kite products I had. Also I sold my kite building business and decided to end the windsurfing lesson service I was doing. Part of the reason for all that was to make time for the Boogie Beau keyboard thing but also to make time for more windsurfing. Too many times I’ve spent a summer afternoon herding beginners around on the inland lake while a short distance away there was good wind on the big lake I was missing. Also I usually don’t feel like going out windsurfing the day before or after a windsurfing lesson. So one day of lessons often uses up three days of a week. It wasn’t uncommon to have a couple days of lessons in one week during the season. Thus I might go a couple weeks at time without any good personal windsurfing. Windsurfing lessons are not easy … they give me a bigger workout than personal windsurfing does. That was especially so if the students weren’t doing well and I’d have to kayak my butt off downwind to catch one. About the time I finished coaching him back up wind I would need to take off and go rescue his buddy.
This 2010 season I plan to double my windsurfing time on the water and hit all the good days! I’m also polishing up the 94′ Mistral Equipe and ’86 Mistral Superlight and putting them on the old lesson trailer. I’ll also be able to take along probably an extra Prodigy and one or more used short boards I have for sale. I have at least four used short boards I need to clear out. Oh yeah one big old Hifly Motion I used for lessons needs to go also.
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