By George the pics look great!

Some helmet GoPro stills...


Its chopping up in this 20 knot breeze


Kato


Tricky


Falcon's sexy curves


Glassssss


Hard to gybe well in this crap ;)


Glassy exit


Wake


Dave


Daffy

A few more here whitelionwindsurfing.blogspot.com/2012/02/lake-george-2012-01-31.html

What a surreal spot!

Saliva dripping onto keyboard again

that isnt a lake its a very very big puddle.

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slowboat said...

that isnt a lake its a very very big puddle.

Jimbob will get the ****s with you saying that about his local spot!

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PJCiesa said...

Spotty what brand gear did you use to take the snaps? Love to know:-)

GoPro HD, not the new one, otherwise the pics would look better again.

here's one from left field, not so long ago there was some talk about speed kiter's sailing in shallow water and gaining from ground effect or something along those lines, are we experiencing anything similar sailing in such shallow water?

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here's one from left field, not so long ago there was some talk about speed kiter's sailing in shallow water and gaining from ground effect or something along those lines, are we experiencing anything similar sailing in such shallow water?

Choco!!!.... wash your mouth out!!! I never heard such dribble... It was obvioulsy the skill and courage of the sailors ..

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red said...

choco said...

here's one from left field, not so long ago there was some talk about speed kiter's sailing in shallow water and gaining from ground effect or something along those lines, are we experiencing anything similar sailing in such shallow water?

Choco!!!.... wash your mouth out!!! I never heard such dribble... It was obvioulsy the skill and courage of the sailors ..

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here's one from left field, not so long ago there was some talk about speed kiter's sailing in shallow water and gaining from ground effect or something along those lines, are we experiencing anything similar sailing in such shallow water?

No. The water is at least half a meter deep in most of the lake. Where it is a bit shallower it is actually slower because your fin drags on the weed.

However, it is an advantage to sail on such flat water! Someone spent many thousands of dollars digging a canal in France to achieve flat water. They should have just planted some weed! Ask the dutch guys about how the weed in Strand Horst keeps the water flat!

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choco said...

here's one from left field, not so long ago there was some talk about speed kiter's sailing in shallow water and gaining from ground effect or something along those lines, are we experiencing anything similar sailing in such shallow water?

No. The water is at least half a meter deep in most of the lake. Where it is a bit shallower it is actually slower because your fin drags on the weed.

However, it is an advantage to sail on such flat water! Someone spent many thousands of dollars digging a canal in France to achieve flat water. They should have just planted some weed! Ask the dutch guys about how the weed in Strand Horst keeps the water flat!

took your time responding Daffy gee i missed the weed today

Hmmm
last time I asked some dutch guys about weed................. Na forget it[}:)]

Whahaha...we never sail on weed, I can assure you. It'll slow you down. But seriously this is no comparison with Horst. This spot is insane. If you get 40+ knots winds I wouldn't be surprised if 50 knots average will be broken.