Two in a row

Another great day in Kalmus today. Unlike yesterday, the wind was up & down for a couple of hours. When it finally settled in around 30 mph at 2 pm, I found myself a bit overpowered on a 5.5. But the Tabou 3S handled the moderate chop gracefully, making it easy to rack up more than 70 km in a 4 1/2 hour session today. That would be a good session on a summer day - great to get it in January! It was nice to see a crowd on the water - Jeff, Martin, and Ron showed up, and maybe 5 other sailors that I don't know.

That's my lovely wife going for a duck jibe. She figured it was warm enough to sail without a hood and without the tubes in the Ianovated wetsuit, so she took the tubes out and put plugs into the tube holes. But she still preferred the suit over her Boost baggy drysuit and her Ion semi-dry suit, since it is very warm and comfortable. A bit later, Martin joined her doing freestyle on the water, and kept going at it for a few hours. Nina took pictures for a few minutes from the beach after her session:

She did not catch me doing anything interesting, since I just did the same old back-and-forth and called it speedsurfing. There are at least 3 things wrong with the jibe entry in the picture above.

The other guy in this picture, Martin, did something interesting all the time. I saw him completing a few beautiful carve 360s, jump head-high, and more. Nina caught a jump landing and a few duck jibes on camera:

We love seeing Martin sail, it's never boring. But we need to get him into an Ianovated wetsuit - today was pretty close to his temperature cutoff, since his old suit has developed quite a few leaks over the years.

Tonight, a big arctic chill will come down to visit us, and stay around from a while, so you probably won't see any blog posts from me for a while.