7/24/09 Chapin

NNW 25-30. 5.3/Acid. Overpowered, too lazy to re-rig to 4.4. Ahhhh Cape Cod, never seems to disappoint. IWindsurf was screwing up foreskins, I mean forecasts all week, but CC came through BIG time on Friday with awesome conditions on the CC Bay. Very similar to Chicks on a N/NNW. Waist to head high swells breaking on an outside bar with so many BIG port tack jumps that I almost wasted myself in the first 30 minutes. The shallow water was warm but the outside was COLD. I was wearing shorts and neoprene top and was chilly on the outside. I ate it on one jump and smacked my nuts so hard that I thought I would pass out. After I finally got back in and rested for 15 minutes, I was good for another 2 hours. There was about 15 other sailors there including that dude Peter from last year. Great session, had to hurry back to the house to catch dinner by 4:15.

7/11/09 Sandy Hook

Well the first real session at Sandy Hook had its good points and bad. After a 4 mile run on the tracks, I headed down 287 to the GSP. Shore traffic was heavy but moving. When I got to Sandy Hook it was blowing 5.0. I rigged up the 5.3/Acid and headed out on the flat water side, while waiting to meet Pete Asheman to sail on the much-more-enticing-but-strangely-empty-of-windsurfers-ocean. Well, sailing on the inside of Sandy Hook sucks. Kind of reminded me of sailing at St. Mary's College. Pete and I hit the ocean after a few hours of dicking around on the bay, and had a great short-but-sweet session, I had switched to the 101. Obviously the deal with Sandy Hook is that, other than NW, the ocean is the place to be. SW would probably suck on the bay or the ocean. We had S/SSE wind so there was a clean side shore fetch on the ocean side. I think Sandy Hook would rock on a N/NE. The traffic leaving Sandy Hook was absolutely staggering from about 2PM to 9 PM, with lots of northern NJ types lurking around all over the place. It's so funny to see a bunch if dudes from, say Newark, trudging down the beach in oversized shorts, wife beaters, basketball shoes, and Met hats turned sideways, their girfriends screaming at them about one thing or another. We had a bite to eat at the restaurant on Sandy Hook while waiting for the traffic to ease up. Great meeting Pete and his wife, I look fwd to hanging out with them again, possibly with LJM tagging along. Cape Cod coming up.

7/3-7/5/09 Corolla

Some knee to waist mushy waves, better than nothing. Beautiful couple of beach days in Corolla, great fireworks, dog drama on the beach, 5' Black snake in the driveway.