Sunday, May 31, 2009
Bayview Park, Long Beach Township, New Jersey
Now that this is pretty much the only gathering spot for bay side windsurfers on LBI, thought I would sail out of here for a change. Indeed, a good number of sailors came over an introduced themselves, noticing my unfamiliar face. I'm guessing some of these folks have sailed here for decades. Nice!
It was a quite windy afternoon -- in the 20s. Challenging for me as I was out of shape, but exhilarating to be able to plane after all this time. I sailed I think from about 2-4pm.
As I'm writing this post a couple months after the fact, I can't remember whether it was Sat May 30 or Sun May 31 for sure but (and isn't this typical for a windsurfer?) I remember the wind better than the day, so checking the iWindsurf archive makes me think it must have been Sunday, as I wasn't sailing all that late in the afternoon.
This is a great spot to sail from -- shallow sandy launch directly on the bay, and the aforementioned friendly community. Only downsides are there's no grassy area to rig (beach or parking lot are your choices) and the boat channel is not very far offshore so on a busy summer weekend you are dodging some pretty big and potentially not very intelligently piloted craft. Need a beach tag in season to park.
Now that this is pretty much the only gathering spot for bay side windsurfers on LBI, thought I would sail out of here for a change. Indeed, a good number of sailors came over an introduced themselves, noticing my unfamiliar face. I'm guessing some of these folks have sailed here for decades. Nice!
It was a quite windy afternoon -- in the 20s. Challenging for me as I was out of shape, but exhilarating to be able to plane after all this time. I sailed I think from about 2-4pm.
As I'm writing this post a couple months after the fact, I can't remember whether it was Sat May 30 or Sun May 31 for sure but (and isn't this typical for a windsurfer?) I remember the wind better than the day, so checking the iWindsurf archive makes me think it must have been Sunday, as I wasn't sailing all that late in the afternoon.
This is a great spot to sail from -- shallow sandy launch directly on the bay, and the aforementioned friendly community. Only downsides are there's no grassy area to rig (beach or parking lot are your choices) and the boat channel is not very far offshore so on a busy summer weekend you are dodging some pretty big and potentially not very intelligently piloted craft. Need a beach tag in season to park.
