March 31st: Very sailable, but creepy

As yesterday was a sunny and warm Saturday, the plan was to sail early and miss the boatloads of morons who were sure to show up at the lake. I called Tim at 9:30, but it was an hour before I heard back from him and he wouldn’t be ready to sail until almost noon. Okay, the forecast had been upgraded from 5-15 to 10-20 and it was already gusting mid-20’s, so maybe the lake would not be too busy.

Just before it was about time to leave, I got a bad feeling about sailing. I called Tim and told him I just couldn’t shake it and I could not sail today. He understood of course since it was he and I who almost got killed by a boat.

I drove out to the lake an hour later and was found only 3-4 cars at Hamilton Creek, so I felt like I really made a bad call, but I was still spooked. Then I drove over the dam and the wind was now SW, so the wind shadow at the dam was over half of the lake. Of course, Cook would have been good in SW. Rats.

Day #4 on the lake

I would love to tell you how great today was, but it was really light, peak wind was 10, but I barely saw 7. I took the Superlight and 6.3 and the really cool thing today is that I took Shadow to see a windsurfer for the first time. She knew something was up as I carried the rigged sail to the beach as I sailed off, she got in the water to follow me. I told her, “no, stay” and she went back on shore. I sailed for the better part of an hour and a half and she always stayed in view and never swam after me. It was really nice to have her at the lake while I sailed.