I'm on it! Just looking at one of my windsurfing spots on google earth and noticed a car parked where I always park ( it's a very quiet road and I'm the only one who ever parks there) so I had a look around the water and spotted something that looked like it was moving quick (I'm the only windsurfer on the island and the only thing that moves quick on that bit of water)I checked the date and time of the google earth image against my gps files and it was me.

On the road you can see a car then just below the dropped pin is me.

you need more downhaul !

Good detective work.
PEI is a nice part of the world!. It's 24 years since I've been there, from memory the bridge had opened 2 weeks before in June 97.

You lobby Google not to update that part!

I put those co-ordinates into google and it told me you were in the middle of Kazistan.......????

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powersloshin said..
you need more downhaul !

yeah, and your are a little heavy with your back hand!

lucky timing ,looks like your riding on a pair of Jeans .

lawn needs some attention

I only mow the bit where I rig up, the rest is down to Parks Canada.
Definately didn't need more downhaul looking at my speed that day, more wind would of been more like it.

My contribution to google Street view

^^ Haha you win!

Nice tidy garden too BTW

Nice spot! Looks like that road does not get much traffic from the grass growing in the pavement cracks!

BTW, it's the same image in Google maps.

Is this speed bank at the end of the track on a Nor wester??

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sailquik said..
Nice spot! Looks like that road does not get much traffic from the grass growing in the pavement cracks!

BTW, it's the same image in Google maps.

Is this speed bank at the end of the track on a Nor wester??

You would need a tiny fin, very shallow up there.

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elmo said..
My contribution to google Street view

Gold !!

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Ben1973 said..
I'm on it! Just looking at one of my windsurfing spots on google earth and noticed a car parked where I always park ( it's a very quiet road and I'm the only one who ever parks there) so I had a look around the water and spotted something that looked like it was moving quick (I'm the only windsurfer on the island and the only thing that moves quick on that bit of water)I checked the date and time of the google earth image against my gps files and it was me.

I hope you did it during a lockdown!
Zooming in and zooming out, it makes a good theme for an advertiser.

Lockdown? What's that? COVID missed PEI.

^^ Hmm, strange that. Don't ya think??

So Ben - have you done the simulated alien abduction on Google earth?

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Mark _australia said..
So Ben - have you done the simulated alien abduction on Google earth?

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Ben1973 said..

sailquik said..
Nice spot! Looks like that road does not get much traffic from the grass growing in the pavement cracks!
BTW, it's the same image in Google maps.
Is this speed bank at the end of the track on a Nor wester??

You would need a tiny fin, very shallow up there.

Got plenty of those.

But seriously, such sandbars usually have a sharp drop-off on the lee side. If it knee deep it's fine. Have you checked it out?

My shortest fin is a delta 46 and that's not short enough to sail up at that end. The bit where I am in the pic in a northerly can be very flat and the land between it and the sea in only a couple of meters high so still get plenty of wind.
the bay has changed a lot the last couple of years with the big storms we've had, new sand bars have formed everywhere, areas that used to be do-able are now a few inches deep at low tide and about about 2foot deep at high. My back garden is the bay so I tend to sail there most of the time as it's just really easy to get out if I don't have much time.
Malpaque bay bay about 50km east is a bigger bay and stays completely flat in most wind directions for some odd reason but you have to play dodge with the hundred kitersurfer up there.

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Mark _australia said..
So Ben - have you done the simulated alien abduction on Google earth?

?

Never heard of it?

Use the scroll wheel on mouse.

Scroll out as fast as you can so the country gets smaller and smaller, then you can see the whole earth, smaller and smaller...... really fast..... while inserting a medical instrument in your bum.

That's what alien abduction is like. Or near as.....