@@Bu1076t Thanks!

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Thanks!

@@jimischulz thanks for the response. Your videos are awesome. I’m buying a good carbon paddle soon and have been asking around about paddle size for downwind and finding people having amazing runs and using 640 to 705 size blades. It’s beautiful watching you catch the wave and glide along more than paddle.

@@chrisbeard9113 Thanks for your nice comment! I usually surf about 66% of the time and paddle about 33%! My average heart rate is usually around 100! I try to let the energy of the waves do all the work. Even when I do paddle, I usually just light tick away!

It was fun and easy!

They were big and fast! My plan for the day was to work on paddle blade fast in the water and slow in the air but sometimes you just gotta crank the air rate up!

Thanks! Today was a good one!

Yes! It gets thermal winds most afternoons from the second week in May thru September. Lotsa kiters!

I had to take a nap when I got home. I was tired.

I didn’t have any paid subscriptions to KZbin so they seem to take my 1080 res videos and down sample them to 720 res even though it says 1080. The videos I upload are aways a bit more in focus.

I’m using the free version of Clipchamp and that is saving the video at a lower resolution the paid subscription saves it to 4k.

Thanks, I do too!

I agree! I did three laps and all were good! Did you get out on the bay yesterday?

​@jimischulz yes - no camera - but it was rocking. Maybe Dennis Mowry will post some footage

I hope so! The wind looked great up there.

Today was a good one and I learned that the low ebb can’t be below 4.00 in order to paddle into the wear house.

Thanks!

Yes it was good! West Point showed 36-38g44. Too windy for laps I was just checking on David. I did that run four times last week on four different days. The Snohomish River ebb tide was working well today with a low 20’s WNW wind. Lots of puffins. To bad I left my camera at home.

@@jimischulz is the drive around the end of the lake reasonably quick? do you try to aim for specific times to minimize traffic?

@@paulreavley5900 No driving around the Lake. We meet at Juanita Beach Park and drive south along Lake Washington Blvd, get on SR 520 for 30 seconds then get off and drive thru Clyde Hill to Evergreen Point, Lake Lane public dock.

As soon as I turned around David was right there so I didn’t really do any upwind paddling! Thank goodness!

I use iKitesurf to know when the afternoon WNW thermal winds are going to blow. I also use it to see when the river is ebbing and when it’s not the middle of the island goes into the flood tide which jacks up the waves a bit. Almost every day May thru September.

Thanks!

There were 3 wingers at the 10th St boat ramp and 2 kiters on the island and me at the north end!

Thanks Paul. I was wondering what the conditions ended up being like up there. You can see in the video how nice the waves are near Preist Point. I should have stayed closer to there but was just doing a short paddle so I headed for the river. The ebbing river sure helps!

Thanks! It was a good day on the lake!

Very!

Thanks!

A few, more in Bellingham. I’m having a health issue right now so I’m out for a while. Sorry. My family lived in Chattanooga when I was a kid. My dad’s office was near the start.

Yes it is!

Did Bob’s Beach to Home Valley last week and hit the greenbacks on the Oregon side from red can 18 to the Anderson Point marker.

Elks to Olympic Beach Park which is at the North end of the Edmonds Marina is 10 miles.

Funny! I seem to have switched to a Woo latley! I have a grandson that uses that expression! Must be where I got it from. Camera battery went dead when the tide changed and the rip surfing got good.

Hoping for more days like this but with warmer weather!

I park at the 10th street boat ramp then paddle 3 mins across the river and 3 mins across the island, then paddle 2 miles out to Steamboat Flats marker and surf back in the summer when the wind is usually 20, I do shorter laps in the winter or if its windier and or cold.

I remembered that long surf from a couple of weeks ago. Its about 42secs, I wouldn't count that Lipp Milking at the end.

He has added some volume to the bow so when its a really big day he doesn't have to lean back in the boat to have the bow go up and over lesser waves when charging downwind. Its hard to paddle hard when leaning back so now he can have good posture which enables him to still paddle hard when charging DW on the big days. Its an older boat that doesn't have much rocker.