Maybe ride 10/05

Unimog Bob · #1 10-05-2009, 07:59 AM

Looks like a possibility of SSW/SW winds today.
Accuweather is saying 12 or so http://www.accuweather.com/us/fl/sai...ay=1&hbhhour=7 and from my experience when the radar looks this

it often times blows, picking up at 1pm or so. (maybe get lucky today, not nuking, but rideable)
I am getting out of school today around noon, and am hoping to ride SPB, maybe EB, depending on direction.
I will put an update on the "windy" site/Textmark gizmo around 12:30 or 1pm.

hobiekanobie · #2 10-05-2009, 08:04 AM

forecast on Sailflow shows some wind right now around 2pm... probably big kites if anything. I might head to EB this afternoon if I can clear my schedule... would rather be kiting on a Monday!

Unimog Bob · #3 10-05-2009, 08:06 AM

Yeah,

It's already trying to blow at the beach, SSW around 8. The odds are good enough of a decent breeze (and I am wanting some sun) that I am gonna blow off my "job"

and hang with some kiters and try to ride.
Hobie, I will textmark a little later, like I said.
I will hit EB maybe if it's SSW.
I drive a burgundy Tundra, name is Scott.

BigR · #4 10-05-2009, 09:37 AM

Quote:

The whale will be buried at the park once the necropsy is finished. A backhoe is nearby.
Fougeres said the whale could have died from disease or old age. Any signs of trauma on the carcass could have come before or after it died, she said.
Todd Neff of Evansville, Ind., has never seen a whale but took the opportunity to change that this morning.
"I was fishing at the pier and somebody told me there was a whale here," he said today at Fort DeSoto Park.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct...-near-fort-de/

TritonKiteboarding · #5 10-05-2009, 09:38 AM

i vote for the reinstatement of skyway scott

hobiekanobie · #6 10-05-2009, 10:28 AM

Sunset then? just drove back from Tampa to Clearwater on 60. looks like it was a good 10 - 12kts...

hobiekanobie · #7 10-05-2009, 10:33 AM

Forecast for Fort Desoto has now increased from 12kts at 2pm to 16kts...
EB back on?

hobiekanobie · #8 10-05-2009, 11:15 AM

St Pete Airport showing 12kts gusting to 18kts, 20 min ago.

Unimog Bob · #9 10-05-2009, 11:42 AM

Just checked out the beach. It's about 12 to 13 knots on the ground.
Thing is, it's often more windy "up top" on these kinds of days, so maybe it won't suck. Plus, it might build (fingers crossed).

For those of you new to kiting, that's a big heads up (seriously) on these S to SSW winds, especially at EB (fact that it's windier up top).
I learned that from Jayson years ago, and he was/is right.
At EB, we are semi-blocked from SSW due to the mangroves, and more wind is up top. So, for newer riders, please rig your kite after you ask a vet what size they think is right on S to SSW days. Take their advice. So many times at EB it seems like it's 15, but its 20 plus out on water and I see people rigging way too big, just to come back in after getting blown off. Fairly confident that is not the case today. But good time to mention it. Also saying it might be 15 (that'd be nice) up where the kite is, and not just 12. So it might not totally suck.

Thanks Matt. I sort of took myself off of here awhile ago, and also dropped the Skyway Scott nickname. That had a purpose when their were 4 Scotts riding aways back. I dropped the nickname 2 years ago when a guy came up to me and said "THE Skyway Scott?" when he met me.
I remember thinking ..... "I must have really f'd up if a stranger thinks he knows me"

I also started to resent sounding like a cartoon.

Anyway... thanks for the comment.

al-kite-ah · #10 10-05-2009, 12:30 PM

i am thininking of checking it out. should be good on a south or southwest ..there with my son. you tampa people swing by....enjoy !!