Wednesday April 5 maybe

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Wednesday April 5 maybe

Watching tomorrow afternoon

Looks like some potential craziness again for the weekend. We gotta stop having a weeks worth of wind in one afternoon

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe
Langdon wrote:

Watching tomorrow afternoon

Looks like some potential craziness again for the weekend. We gotta stop having a weeks worth of wind in one afternoon hour

FTFY Lol

Watching tomorrow as well.

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe

I’m watching too. S wind is tempting but fickle. My son & daughter are visiting, so don’t know if I’ll have an opportunity to sail.

Barrett

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe

Conditions are very strange now. Gilmer reporting negative visibility -.25mi. Not sure what that is - you can only see what is behind you?

What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe
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Conditions are very strange now. Gilmer reporting negative visibility -.25m. Not sure what that is - you can only see what is behind you?

The fog is so thick it's reflective. Often called "mirror" or "chrome" fog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Fog

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe

A few of us are popping up to Vanns this afternoon. Most of the wind readings in the region are dead south.

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe

6-12 mph Side-on at llsc. Rigging big w Equipe

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6-12 mph Side-on at llsc. Rigging big w Equipe

So tell us what is going on at LLSC? How much damage? Did your changing room survive?

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Re: Wednesday April 5 maybe

Nobody got hurt but there is a lot of damage to the clubhouse roof & windows and some to boats as two of the docks in the marina got loose and collided. The clubhouse will be unusable for a while- multiple events are cancelled or rescheduled. Some dry storage boats got tossed or had trees fall on them. Boats on trailers in the junior area took a beating to rigging mostly as they got tangled up. Dozens of trees down. The beach (and changing room) were in the lee of the straight line wind from the south and are unscathed.

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Thanks for the photos. Sorry to see all that damage. Hopefully everything was well insured. I guess your superior workmanship on the changing room carried the day.

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Launching from Vanns, I saw you (Chris) sailing the Equipe. William, Rhett& I were foiling with 8 meter sails and needed them to get going. Gene left due to light wind & Langdon launched when it was dying.

I climbed Stone Mtn. Earlier in the day with a good S breeze, but the fickle S wind whimped out at the Lake.

Barrett

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