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Well, I tried diving yesterday on a dive boat, sheez, the wx gods seem a bit miffed! There was a nasty supercell that developed over Deerfield/Boca Raton, full of strange green, blue, grays, incipient funnels, lightning, high speed cloud streamers just inland and threatening to head seaward again. Between rain and threatened lightning it wasn't the most relaxing free diving session. Sure beats a hurricane but I am resisting sliding over to Extreme Parchisie as a no wind option. What are other folks doing?
Hang in there, the summer continues ...
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Rick, sorry the dive didn't work out, how were the Dean winds up your way? I couldn't wait for the race to start at Matheson last Sunday and did my own looong upwinder. Before you resort to extreme parchese maybe we should take a Cessna and hunt down the Andros thermals?
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We had two solid days of good winds, 11 to 16 m weather, perhaps more within normal working hours. It was good to get out and in the waves. It occurred to me that it had been months for me since a descent wind session and distance races particularly with messed up gastrocs on the mend might not be the most intelligent choice at this point. So, I wimped out of the downwinder, that time! I have been looking over wind data for NW Andros, the thermals don't appear to be on all the time, just sometimes. The winds shift into the mid to high teen knot range in late morning through sunset often several days in a row. Over here as a rule there is nothing in the same time frames. If you're up for flying, I'm up for buying some fuel, etc.. Feel like exploring?
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Rick, I would be up for an overnight hop to Andros, the cost to rent a plane for 24 hours and split it three ways would be about $240 pp rt. Basically you have to pay for 4 hours of flight time at $170.00/hr for every 24 hours you are holding the airplane. In a Cessna 182 we could go three 180 lb persons and 150/200lb of gear by reducing the fuel load a bit. Andros is only an hour away so we wouldn't need a full 88 gallon fuel load. The advantage to personal flying is you make your own schedule and go where the wind is not where the airlines fly to. Let me know, I can reserve the plane with a few key strokes. The plane is based out of Tamiami but I could fly up to Pompano and pick you up and burn off some fuel weight that way also. PS Kent M has survived flying with me.
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