Big JR day

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Big JR day

Post by Russian Dood »

JR was HUGE!

The wind on the beach was 25 gusting to 32. Good sets of waves on the inside, house size waves, that one can see from the beach on the outside.

Kiter Mark put a nice show skimming on top of the water and making insane jumps (30 ft easy). The only kiter out =D>

It came up more after Windaddiction left. So all the boyz had to wait out a bit.

One guy (sorry, man, don't know your name) swiched to 3.7 and he was a happy camper, BWD managed to hang on on his 4.0 and morewind, ULR and Mark were on something similar.

Swell picked up a notch at around 5ish and it was almost mast high! By almost I mean that when a sailor was coming in between waves all you could see was just a top panel!

Very good action! Very impressive =D> =D> =D>

Morewind stoped for a while to get some of this action on film (or should I say on a memory stick) hopefuly we'll see it soon!

To bad I felt chicken today and didn't go out :oops:
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"One guy (sorry, man, don't know your name) swiched to 3.7 and he was a happy camper"

That happy camper was me (Graham). Cheers to having a boss who sails (although he definitely missed it today) and lets his employees catch the big days. After a year of hearing about the fabled JR, and a bunch of times trying to catch it, I think I can now say I've seen it when it was good. Definitely a fun day.

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Well JR was deffantly and experince! First time try at "wave sailing" and i must say waht a rush, looking over your right shoulder to see a big wave breaking behind you, and plus you dont have to paddle out to the surf! I'll hopefully be getting a cd of photo's of my friend who was thier taking pictures, and then I'll get them out to you guys!
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dave owned it yesterday ... living up to his title

mark got 1 jump that i would estimate at approx 50ft

who knows when a day like that will ever happen again :-s
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Yeah an excellent and very rare day out there. I could hardly sleep last night I kept thinking about those waves. Nice rides out there Graham. Great pics PimpHand!
windaddiction wrote:I'll hopefully be getting a cd of photo's of my friend who was thier taking pictures, and then I'll get them out to you guys!
I'd love to see those pictures windaddiction.
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Hey Graham,
Are you from Kingston originally? I was just in Maui and met a buddy of yours at Hi-Tech. He assked if I knew you. Guess I haven't been on the water enough lately. Look forward to meeyting you on the next big JR day in 1o years. Nice score dude!
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Post by morewind »

Here are some videos from yesterday at JR. Beware of the file size - they're mondo. :shock: Best to right-click on the links and save to your PC.

I'm making a compilation video that should be more modem friendly. I'll post when it is ready.

....movies removed to save disk space...see below for the compilation movie or contact Morewind....
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Post by winddoctor »

Great vids! More! More! Did you catch any good jumps on video, Morewind? I feel even worse for having missed it, but keep 'em coming!
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Post by morewind »

thanks WindDoc. I'll see if there is a video with some jumping action.

Here is a compilation of 5 videos. It's a bit smaller compared to downloading them all, but still 20M.

JR movie by Morewind (20.5 MB)

Thanks to BWD for helping me with the uploads and offering server space for these vids.
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:D hey everybody

jr was sweet on tuesday and guess what its happening again. reports show friday west swell 18 feet with 20-30 knots west. im playing hookey again. hopefully the wind will be a little more user friendly lol.....
see you old guys out there that is if your not too sore from tuesday 8)
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Post by UnusuallyLargeRobin »

Hey Morewind, you don't have any shots or video of me doing the repeated rinse cycle followed by a leisurely swim? How many times do I have to do it, wasn't the 1/2 doz plenty? What? I'm not exciting enough for ya!
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Post by morewind »

Hey ULR - sorry, no vids this time. But, I found a couple of pix with you in them. Just posted them last night. They seem to be attracting a fair bit of attention. Not sure why. :o

Here's the link ...

http://www.bigwavedave.ca/gallery/displ ... =128&pos=9
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Post by Unusually Large Robin »

Should be obvious why so many hits, it's all the chicks checking us out. It's also ok that you don't have any video of my maui big wave training (swimming) :wink:
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