June 29 - Floras Lake

3640km
Langlois, OR, USA - Floras Lake

Sailworks Retro 6.5, Sailworks Retro 7.5, Goya Bolt 115, MFC KPR-42. Wind: 15G22, 12G19

Personal Training Camp Day 2. Goal for today was to focus on learning laydown jibes. 

Success score for today was 'middlin' .  The attempted focus was there but the body resisted after yesterday's workout and then the wind took a long afternoon nap... Got a short, good session on the 6.5 shortly after lunch then had to wait until about 5PM and went out on the 7.5. After I was tired and started to derig the wind picked back up again. Oh well. 

Results: no speed attempts today. The jibe focus clearly showed that I'm NOT yet doing laydown jibes - more like 30 degrees off vertical . At least I know the areas to work on. Tomorrow's forecast looks like a rest day with no wind so hopefully I'll be recharged and ready to go on Saturday.

Alsosnoff commented:

Barton, l always love to follow your stories!!

I commented:

Thanks Al!

I decided a while ago that at some point I won't be physically able to sail any more so I should be documenting my struggles/successes as I go so I will have memories to relive - thus the extra verbiage. As a way to make finding the memories easier, I decided to use Google's free blog services where I could put everything in one place for easy browsing. I thus have copies of all the GPSTC posts plus some extra pictures at http://bartonwindsurfing.blogspot.com/.  

Back to the topic of laydown jibes, I rewatched a video I took Taty Frans doing laydowns on his iSonic and realized that with his big sail (8.6 I think) he was only putting the mast over at maybe 50 degrees. My issue is the mast/sail is heavy so I'm not sure how far over I can go and still get it back up. Weight isn't an issue with the smaller sails so maybe I can go farther with them... any tips or tricks will be gladly accepted  .