First day off: SKUNKED

So, yesterday was my first day off from work in 3 weeks, and i decided to take the opportunity to make the 3 hour drive south to windsurf and see my girlfriend. I checked the wind forecasts the night before and between 8 am-12 pm it was supposed to be blowing 12-15; perfect for formula. I left from my house in Northern Virginia at 9:30 that night and arrived at 1 am, ready to wake up in the morning and get some much needed windsurfing in.

The next morning I woke up excited and packed up my car to head out at 8 am. I decided to head to willoughby bay because I was going to be sailing by myself. This turned out to be a big mistake. The wind direction was NNW which sucks for Willoughby, it is off shore and the land acts as a huge wind shadow. I didn't know where else to go, so I decided to take my chances that there was wind out in the middle. Turned out I made the wrong decision

When I got out there it was very leisurely sailing with little gusts that weren't even enough to get me planing. I did get 2 brief 10-15 second planing runs, but not enough to satisfy me. Maybe if I was able to rig my 10.9 sail i would have had a much better time, but an 8.5 was all I had. It was nice to get out on the water at least even though I didn't get my thrills. I also saw dolphins again which was kind of cool. I'm beginning to wonder if the same dolphins swim into willoughby bay daily to feed because i saw dolphins in there a month or so back as well. After about an hour of putting around I decided to cut my losses and go home. I spent the rest of the day hanging out with my Girlfriend, Lindsay, and i ended up having a good time anyway.


what happened to me---->