Davis Point Friday.

From: George Szeman (gs@rtl.rose.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 10:17:37 PDT


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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:17:37 -0700
From: George Szeman <gs@rtl.rose.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
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Subject: Davis Point Friday.


After all the discussions about Davis Point,
I decided to try it out last Friday. I arrived at 3:00 pm
and found no other windsurfers there. After dragging my gear
and rigging up, I launched around 3:45. I was reading 15-18mph on
my anemometer a the top of the cliffs, but figured the wind must be
much stronger out on the water, judging by the chop, so I rigged my 5.0
sail (I weigh 155#). After schlogging a little I caught good wind but
it still wasn't
enough. The chop was good for port ramps, but my sail was too
small. I then rigged my 6.2 sail and went out on my floaty 276 board.
This was better, but still marginal at times. I even hit some real dead
spots where I
had to wait around to water start. It wasn't until about 6:45 pm
when the wind shifted (this shows up correctly on the iWindsurf wind
graph)
to W-SW when the wind got real good for the 6.2.

After looking at the wind graph the next day, I have found the
iWindsurfreadings to be way optimistic. For example, at 4:00 pm it's
showing ave: 28, lull:23, gusting to 32.
This is way off by at least 10 mph! I did sail out almost 1/2 mile from
the shore and I didn't see any kind of wind like that. Where is the
wind sensor for Davis point?
Has anyone else experienced this kind of discrepancy between the sensor
and
reality before? Should I have sailed out a mile or more from shore to
get the
"good" wind?

George.



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