Locust Sunday

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Things are looking great for Locust at the moment.
Sleep in a bit, wait for the tide to drop. By 11 am it should be blowing like a sunuva bitch. Higher tide last week made for great waves throughout the entire bay.

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Was told with strong winds there can be a storm surge and a 8 foot tide can actually appear to be closer to 9 foot. So it will be challenging to launch tomorrow morning.
Might be better to wait until late morning as tide will be better. Otherwise, forecast looks great.

[spinmaster3000]

Where's locust again? I'm down for a good day on the water. It's been a while and I'm due.

[spinmaster3000]

Never mind...I looked it up.

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Great morning. by 10am there was enough beach and water was shallow enough to get a kite up. First 3 kites were 4M, 4.5M, and me on a 5M.
Had a solid hour of strong wind. It was up and down but with a 5M kite it was easy to manage. I went back in to the beach to socialize, and take a few pics. Pumped up 7M, but wind died off a bit. Went up the stairs to get my 9m, but once at the truck I decided to head home and spend time with family.
I was hoping to practice downloop or help loop to help soften landing on high jumps but I'm a loser and couldn't force myself to try it. Landings are a bit hard sometimes with the small kites. Saw some wind squalls out in the bay. Looked pretty crazy first thing in the am.