Oregon Wavesailing Trips 2012
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Just follow the old adage: "When in doubt, goiter out."more force 4 wrote:Kus, you mention a couple of times in logs that you or others played it safe and 'jibed on the outside'. Ummmm - what other realistic options are there? (I remember dunking in to do a controlled flip and waterstart on the other tack, but I doubt The Boss would do that under 65 knots or so.....). Or are you just talking about jibing without bothering to immediately catch a wave, or chicken jibing before the outer bar?
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on the outside, as in ride the macker in, do the outer bar ride, check over shoulder and dare to cut back inside for a longer ride or abort half way and get TF out of the way of the freight trains arriving and the outer bar closing out in a 30' wide sea of hurling froth which you will NOT make it across despite full planing run Fun times, roll the dice, saw a couple of guys lose badly.more force 4 wrote:Kus, you mention a couple of times in logs that you or others played it safe and 'jibed on the outside'. Ummmm - what other realistic options are there? (I remember dunking in to do a controlled flip and waterstart on the other tack, but I doubt The Boss would do that under 65 knots or so.....). Or are you just talking about jibing without bothering to immediately catch a wave, or chicken jibing before the outer bar?
Yesterday was epic, huge but not suicidal. The day prior was probably a day better not sailed but we did anyway
Thx Mike Tsaw and morewind the forecaster, looking forward.
Wish less, sail more!!
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Chinook /Takuma /KA Australia (Tribal) /Aztron
You're either in or in the way....
Doing things the hard way since 1963....
Vancouver Island Windsports
Chinook /Takuma /KA Australia (Tribal) /Aztron
You're either in or in the way....
Doing things the hard way since 1963....
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Thanks for that! Very easy to understand!morewind wrote:...I'll try to describe a good forecast in words, then add a graphic when a decent forecast shows up. For the south OR coast you want N wind, so you need low pressure in N California, combined with high pressure to the north-west, out in the Pacific -- this creates the N->S pressure gradient, which makes the N wind on the S OR coast (sometimes way too much as in Kus's latest adventure ). Now to the map -- what you look for are the isobar lines. You want to see 2-3 isobar lines at roughly the Oregon-California border, and oriented parallel to this border. Parallel is key. Closer together = stronger wind. Tight lines can indicate a blowout ==> go north to Bandon or Florence where the wind may be sailable.
Right now the isobars run parallel to the coast, hence no wind on the coast, but possibly good for the gorge.
Hopefully that makes some sense. I've watched this pressure model for years, and it's a remarkably good predictor of OR wind a week out.
The following pressure model is guaranteed to deliver ZERO wind for the S Oregon coast Unfortunately, that lines up with Wed of next week.
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