BWD Oregon Coast Wavesailing Camp 2014

Jfish · Post by **Jfish** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:59 pm

Rika and I will leaving for the gorge Thurs afternoon.
See you all down there!

Windsurfish · Post by **Windsurfish** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:06 pm

Hmmmm. I wonder if I get to go too? ;)

C36 · Post by **C36** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:25 pm

Great to see the flurry of posts and the excitement/numbers growing!

Morewind:

Thanks for the oracle refresher (you saved me looking through the 2012 thread)!

Sorry you won't be there next week.

I enjoyed sharing the experience in the past, always appreciated your encouraging words, and look forward to sharing again in the future!

TheLaw: Won't the Delica (and Windsurfish

) be disappointed at being left behind?

I really enjoyed sharing sessions at Flo on the way back on a couple of trips and would appreciate posts on what peoples 'next stop' is on the way down and on the way back.

TheLaw · Post by **TheLaw** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:47 pm

Sold the Delica last year and the Explorer turned out to be pretty small last year. I am going for comfort this year! I hear these Uhaul vans really jump well in the sand dunes so that will be fun...obviously I have to put on the paddle tires first.

See you in HR on Friday. Hopefully the rain stops

winddoctor · Post by **winddoctor** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:56 pm

Warming up a seat at Doppio in HR for y'all. Heading to Pistol Sat again for a few days

.

TheLaw · Post by **TheLaw** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:30 pm

Nice! I look forward to shredding a wave with you soon

C36 · Post by **C36** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 3:57 pm

Morewind:

Do you have a link for the 9-panel orical forecast. This 4-panel was the closest I could find:
http://weather.unisys.com/ecmwf/ecmwf.p ... v=hide_bar

Thanks

firstonlastoff · Post by **firstonlastoff** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:06 pm

try this,
http://weather.unisys.com/gfs/index.php?r=us

click on the picture of the pressure gradient maps, and then click through the days in advance until you realize how much time has just been wasted...

bwd · Post by **bwd** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:09 pm

Or even this

http://www.bigwavedave.ca/forecasts.php?page=5

C36 · Post by **C36** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:23 pm

firstonlastoff wrote:try this,
http://weather.unisys.com/gfs/index.php?r=us

click on the picture of the pressure gradient maps, and then click through the days in advance until you realize how much time has just been wasted...

Thanks, but I still get lost in there.

[edit/ second try I got it - different colour scheme made me think I was looking at the wrong information at first]

bwd wrote:Or even this
http://www.bigwavedave.ca/forecasts.php?page=5

I looked, honest (just couldn't find the sunglasses on top of my head).

Thanks.

So if I understand Morewind's tutorial, things are still looking good (starting about Sunday - "4 days" out).

This seems to validate the other 'weather-models-for-dummies"!

morewind · Post by **morewind** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:06 pm

that's it

One thing I forgot to mention. The dates on the panels are grenwich(sp?) time, which is ahead of us by 7 or 8 hrs, depending on time of year. So, a panel marked with 12Z SAT (noon grenwich), would actually be 5am on the west coast (noon minus 7 hours). To my eye, it looks good from Sun to at least Thurs. The gradient suggests a nukin' Pistol on Sun and Mon ! Pack yer small stuff

KUS · Post by **KUS** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:54 pm

Flo is as far as I'm going mike, any thought on that? Fcastpage lower panels in the model are cut off :-

redbaron · Post by **redbaron** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:10 am

Looks like Im going be able to do round two. Leaving vic Saturday. See you guys in GB Sunday!

morewind · Post by **morewind** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:46 pm

KUS wrote:Flo is as far as I'm going mike, any thought on that?

Well ... if it were me, I'd drive the extra 2 1/2 hrs to Pistol. The tight gradient lines have backed off over the last 2 days, and are concentrated over the OR/CA border. Plus, pistol and the cape have a way shorter walk the water, good for those of us with shaky hips

If you've already been travelling for over 10 hrs from Vic what's another 2? Either way, have a great trip Kus

Tsawwassen · Post by **Tsawwassen** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:03 pm

Reading this thread was killing me so I'm now going for a few days.

Driving tomorrow morning and will either stop in Hood River tomorrow or head straight to Florence/ Gold Beach to SUP. See you at the Cape Sunday or maybe on the way down!

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