Athena-My Kindred Spirit

Yeah, I'm not sure what inspired that Title, but whatever. I'm just stoked, sailing my arms off around the parts lately. Phew....

So we pulled into Lewes around 10, and although iwindsurf had it onshore in the 30s, it looked light to me. So i rigged big, 5.0 and my 76 thruster.

I'm digging the Mystic Battle Jacket

 

Proved to be the right combo of loose board and power to bust through the sizeable shorebreak, and corresponding HUGE wind shadow at the waters edge 

had to take a few on the chin to bust through. 

two tacks and it was swell city 

just had to work for it....

and jump over the soup 

No SOUP for you! 

This backside stuff is a HELLUVA lot of fun~!

I'm in there somewhere

 blurry, but you get the picture 

landing in the trough on the backside 

Cape May Ferry in background 

Onshore wind means...

big air time 

starting to get windy here, and began to clock NW 

 yeah, i'm grinning in this shot

Stoked for more tomorrow.

 

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Romp At The Secret Spot

Ken, James, and Bob joined me for a good ole fashioned romp in Lewes. For me lit 5.7 on the 101.



The Secret Spot was firing solid conditions. Seemed to me there was an inordinate amount of water in the bay as the sand bar wasn't breaking even at lo tide. No complaints though, and Ken and I sailed at least 4 hours.

sooo crowded ;)

nice jump by Ken

my first run of the day

ken having some...... 

....backside fun 

Nice!

 

splash down 

doh!

and another 

Bob Ramsay 

big air! 

sand bar at the secret spot is so much fun

 

Can ya tell whats unusual with this picture? At first I thought this unfortunate catamaran ended up here after Sandy. However, there is growth ON TOP of that catamaran. The storm uncovered this..Amazing. Kudos to Ken for discerning this unsual event. Yeah, there was a lot of erosion on Delmarva from Sandy

looks like another coastal low spins up this week. I'm all over that.