Westerly Tuesday Evening

[Alton]

Over SW 20 at Iona. Maybe 7m later. Pumping 9m for now

[Slappy]

I would rig small at Iona, 7m. I've been caught out there with too much kite and it's no fun.

[Alton]

Lucas and I finished our awesome 9m session. Now it's nuking W 30-35 and Iona !!!

[tweegster]

Lots of kiters enjoyed the unicorn mayonnaise in white rock. Up and down close to shore, but 9m or smaller conditions and big nicely shaped waves out far. Warm water!

[tweegster]

It's really nuking now

[gabrielb]

gusting 45knots at WB when I left.
Whidbey gusting 45 knots.

insane.

[Alton]

Lucas and I enjoyed very civilized SW 20-25 on 9m+TT from 6pm - 8pm at Iona Beach. Awesome waist high breaking waves with 30' of glassy smooth sections between. Even scored some great boosting. Super sunny and super warm water - felt like we were in Maui.

Logs on the beach and weeds at the shoreline made it tricky to launch Lucas' kite. I instead drift launched in chest deep water to avoid the weeds ... then self-rescued since I was first off the water.

Later arrivals were treated with W 30-35 howling conditions. Lucas and I were sandblasted as we packed up. Nice to return home before dark.

Fantastic way to end my 5 consecutive days with 2 hours of civilized wind and waves (fun in the sun) before heading off for Toronto Wednesday morning.

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[Slappy]

Wow, what a session!

I arrived late and got weeds of death all over my lines on my first attempt to launch so had to spend another 10 minutes de-weeding and by then the tide was low enough to launch on sand and Alton was on his way home to give me a lunch.

So I only got on the water by 8:00 and decided I had to be off by 8:35 to get out before they locked the gate at 9:00 (so fucking early, it was still light until 9:30!).

Only 35 minutes, but they were damn good minutes.Full depower on 7m + SB. My board was sticking to my feet like glue. I landed two 15 foot strapless airs, new personal best. I was landing everything, air after air.

Then the guy on the 10m Trigger had to rescue to I yelled at him to forget wrapping his lines and just get to his kite. God damn I wouldn't want to be on a 10m there, I could barely carry my SB back it was gusting 40 easy.

I should have wrapped up in deep water like Alton, but I was in a rush and like an idiot did it in 1 foot of that death weed water. So I got to spend another 10 minutes de-weeding and then sprinting out to beat the gate at 9:05 driving in all my kite gear.

The water was stupid warm too, a bit too hot in my 5/3.

[Roxstock]

Great fun in my 9m at Iona. On the water at 7:30 until 8:30 hitting big boosts and when the gusts were reaching near 40 knots and it was getting uncomfortable I called it a day. Best session I've had at Iona.

Slappy, we parked outside so we would have to rush to leave and when we did leave at 9:30 we got a ride out to our truck with another kiter in his van and the park warden was still at the gate waiting. I wouldn't like to risk getting locked in but I think they hang around a bit longer if cars are left inside.

[Slappy]

Also when the wind was SW you had the nasty Iona stink going on, I've never been there on true SW before so I was surprised at the stink.

Once the wind clocked NW (and ramped up) the stink was gone.