Wind and Water

EPIC!!! Saturday was perhaps the best (I actually think that to myself often when I windsurf) day on the water in my long windsurfing career. I got on the lake just after 10:00 am and got done just before 4:00 !! WOW!!!
It was blowing about 28mph out of the south when I arrived. It was sunny, warm and the lake temp was probably about 65 degrees. A few runs on my old reliable Seatrend with my 6.1 meter sail and full wetsuit. Well after about an hour or so the wind startted to build and I was getting hot. I came in to changet to my 120 liter HiFly Free board and my smaller 5.3 meter Sailworks on the shorter mast. I slipped on my shorty and was off!! Yeah baby I was in heaven. I was able to cut about 8 jibes! Six on the starboard tack and two on the port tack. They were a bit sloppy and had a hard time maitnining the plane all the way through the jibes but hey, I did not have to get off my board.

I met Kim Smallwood up there and her husband Bob. We chatted for a bit and I also ran into Fred Bross (sold Shaun his Golf). He told me that he used to windsurf for a living.
A few time I got totally launched. I did not get catapulted very often but I was having a bit of trouble getting into the footstraps. Asa sson as I unweighted my aft-most foot, the sail picked me and tosse me in the air into my rig like a limp rag doll. Boy it was fun to feel that power! The second time I got launched the mast hit the nose of the board and cracked the cosmetics.

When Iwas done, I was done. My arms felt like they had been pulled out of their sockets. When I got home, took a few ibupropin and a small nap. I was in pain but boy did it feel good. I was really happy to get thos jibes off. Watching the 12 step Jibe program on the DVD really helped. It will be a sad day when I am no longer able or willing to windsurf.

Max turns 18 !

As we ate dinner together on Friday night we were all (Sylvie, Max, Sydney, Shaun, Ben and myself I leaned over to her and slowly sang the Tom Jones hit "I'm not reponsible". She looked at me kind of funny. She did not understand that that I was making fun of the fact that legally we were no longer responsible for her actions. Max has been pretty good and we had no reason to worrry but you never know. I told her that if she got busted for illegal song downloads, the powers that be would come after her.

I cannot believe how quickly Max has matured and developed into a beautiful person. She has such an eazy way with her friends. Sometimes I am jealous of the terrific way she interacts with her friends.

Sylvie did a great job decorating the dinning room ands made soem special heart-shaped cupcakes that we delicious. Her and Ben decided to go to Montreal to celebrate their 18th birthdays. They had dinner at a Japanese restaurant that I recommended called Sakura. They said they had a great meal.