Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.

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Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.

One for the scrapbooks? Gas up the wagon, charge up the chariot and pump up the tires on the trailer. We're going to be windsporting a lot over the next few days.

I'll give today a skip - SE winds over a very warm lake. If I were to take a chance, I'd look at West Bank Park on Lanier. Neil and I did that a couple years back. We had a pretty big dome effect yesterday at the Wed. night races and today is supposed to be warm, too. Randy has often recommended Keith's Bridge Park. Both have much shorter fetches and are less affected by the dome.

https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/West_Bank_Park
https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Keith%27s_Bridge_Park

https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Dome_Effect

Edit: Thanks, Randy for posting the the encoded version of the KB link. Firefox understands the apostrophe but the web site parser doesn't. I've updated the link here.

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Re: Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.

Just FYi - I've only sailed KB on W or SW and it has defied the dome effect sometimes. It would take a pretty long windshadowed schlog to get out to a place where there is a good S to SE fetch. Maybe Al will chime in. He has sailed there a lot more than I have.

Here is the KB link.

https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Keith%27s_Bridge_Park

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Re: Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.

Is it shorty weather yet? Thinking about Galt's tomorrow. Water temp says 64 here.

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Re: Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.
windlord wrote:

Is it shorty weather yet? Thinking about Galt's tomorrow. Water temp says 64 here.

Depends on the board (how likely are you to swim?) and air temp, imho. I did a shorty a couple of weeks ago before the cold snap and the air was in the 80s. I think a couple of folks did shorties the other day.

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Re: Sweet heavens, just looked at the dot forecast for... days.

I did swim trunks a couple weeks ago. While pleasant on the board it was decidedly unpleasant in the water

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