How can you get skunked when a camera is showing white caps and you live 8 minutes away?

I hit one solid hour of good wind before it slowed (right when 2 windsurfers showed up and rigged and unfortunately, right when Danny showed up, too).

Despite it slowing down, we got to test the low end of Danny's new Crazy Fly board and his new 20m kite. Pretty unreal. I think that CF might actually have the Glide beat in low wind ability. It's at least it's equal.
I was going upwind in some pretty light stuff and so was Danny.
We used a local windsurfer (Britt) who I've known for years and is simply awesome and has the best lightwind poleboarding gear made as our reference. He can plane out in 7 knots. When it slowed, he wasn't planing and we were.
That's gotta hurt!