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- Olympic-Grade Folly (or the Cluster$@#&* that is ISAF...) / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)So this funny thing happened on the way to Rio...A couple years ago, kiteracing became organized to the point where it was starting to look like a real contender for a berth in the Olympics. And boy did those kiteracers ..
- Full on / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Day 2 of the Costa Brava PWA slalom event. When you hear people like Dunkerbeck and Albeau mention that it was crazy, you can pretty much figure it was. Crazy, in fact, might be a charitable description. And yet these gu ..
- Slalom object lessons / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Go ahead, watch that video - it's good stuff. What you're seeing there is a fairly ho-hum PWA slalom race, right? Relatively big gear, and the camera being way up and away from the action, together with the distortion th ..
- There's just no substitute / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)There's that rush you get when you're planing along, flying the board on the fin. It's the purest form of sailing - your body an integral part of the system that converts wind power into velocity. The efficiency of moder ..
- Gotta love these guys... / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)As if a fully powered slalom session for lunch wasn't enough to put a big smile on my face, I was treated to a spectacular visit by a very playful pod of Harbor Porpoises (see image for what these little guys look like; ..
- Rites of spring / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)The first flowers are poking their heads up; some trees are starting to bloom, and slowly but surely, temperatures are creeping upward here in Bellingham. The skiing on Baker is still great (the base on Pan Dome is 273 i ..
- On life-affirming stupidity / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)I don't have any small b&j gear. I just don't get to sail it enough to make the investment. There's only one day or so every winter where I'll be out there on my small slalom board and 6.1, picking my way through the ..
- On deflating kites and the relative strengths of FW and slalom gear / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)The Lord of the Wind Showdown in Los Barrilles (Baja) got some pretty intense coverage. Lots going on, tons of good racing and freestyle/big air for both boards and kites. And, of course, a bit of friendly rivalry. David ..
- US Nationals - Day 3 / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)What a day - a bit of everything, which is just why racing is a lot like life in general. The RC announced that we'd do a noon start for long distance, then run slalom at 3. That was met with a healthy sense of skepticis ..
- US Nationals - Day 2 / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Wow, I'm tuckered out. Tough day at the office, but also some really fun and challenging racing. We started a bit late as there seemed to be trouble with the windward mark; that kind of thing is pretty commonplace in rac ..
- US Nationals - Day 1 / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Nationals got off to a good start yesterday. Conditions were cold, foggy, and a bit gusty. Nice big fleet, including a great group of juniors. David Wells has excellent coverage at Waterhound (if you haven't checked out ..
- Wonder what the guy at the rental counter would have said... / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)You know it's regatta time when heavily overloaded rental cars start showing up at Crissy Field. Roof racks? We don't need no steeenkin' roof racks!Got to SF yesterday, met up with the rest of the Gorge Cup fleet today. ..
- Gorge Cup - DaKine Downwind Slalom / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Excellent day of racing at the Event Site. We ran round robins (let's see, heat one is A-B, heat two is C-D, heat three is ADHD...), so everyone got to race a ton. The course was set really well with no super tight or br ..
- 2010 Sailworks Junior Clinic / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)What a great bunch of kids - Bruce put on his annual junior clinic today, shortened to one day due to this year's compressed racing schedule with Nationals in SF next week. It was cranking windy this morning, making for ..
- Just a little bit further... / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Go ahead, click on that picture. That's BP, slogging out on his smallest slalom board (my guess is about 75 liters) and 5.4. And it's not an optical illusion - he really is in the water up to his butt. At this point, he' ..
- Family picture / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Good day of sailing in Hood River. Got a chance to use every piece ofslalom gear I own as conditions built during the day. Warm enough tosail in boardshorts, too - gotta love the Gorge. ..
- 2010 Blowout / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)An interesting one. Good breeze at Stevenson, so I rigged my Exo 71 and 8.2 NXsl. Bruce was going slalom as well, as were MacRae and Jay Salzman. Jay Watermeyer was going slalom with an 8.5 Retro, and Sean Williams and A ..
- Object lesson on barging - Any questions? / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Check out this screenshot from a video taken by Jean Rathle. Then scroll down to the video. Watch from about 2 minutes in and witness Steve B. taking out Al M. Steve was definitely barging here (pretty common thing in fo ..
- Gorge Cup - 2010 Season Opener / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Victoria Day weekend in the Gorge - and just to make all those visiting Canadians (plus your humble narrator from Bellingham, which is nearly up there as well) feel right at home, the Gorge was dishing out frontal condit ..
- Tuning up / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)It's May, and the first Gorge Cup of the season is only three weeks away; good thing conditions have been pretty good lately, with remarkably good southerlies. And yes, that really is a 9.1 - after five seasons with a 9. ..
- Going to my happy place / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)Every windsurfer I know seems to have a favorite set of conditions, matched with a favorite set of gear, resulting in a favorite kid of session. It's that sort of Goldilocks state, where things are just right - not too t ..
- Rites of spring / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)First session of the season in short sleeves; always a big deal here in the Pacific Northwest. Amazing how much more agile one feels without all the extra neoprene. Made me downright adventurous - ended up doing tacking ..
- Doing the hula / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)This was taken today by Belligham Herald photographer Andy Bronson. He introduced himself as I was rigging, and I guess he liked the line about me taking a liquid lunch. Hard to tell from this that once out of the wind-s ..
- Saturday slalom / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)exhilarationboard chattering over chopsheet in and send it ..
- Stoke - both vicarious and direct / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)The picture on the left is of Lindsey Vonn, who today won the Olympic women's downhill in Whistler, just a few hours north of here. Her team mate Julia Mancuso won silver. I'm stoked about this for all the obvious reason ..
- Back - sort of / Andreas Macke (G-42) /
Andreas Macke (G-42)After over 6 months of serious withdrawal, my surgeon just cleared me for windsurfing as of last week. And as if someone had flipped a switch, the very windsurfer-friendly El Nino winter we've had (mild temps, lots of br ..