4.2 in Los Barriles, WOO WOO........



KITES ARE GROUNDED.. EPIC day in Los Barrilies

It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's big fun. The smallest sail I have here in Los Barrilies is my 4.2 Northwave. The smallest board I have here is 8'6" Realwind 261 (today I wish I had my 8'2"). Today, a rare day in Los Barrilies, went off big time blowing hard all day long. Wayne our neighbor, wind gage was reading 29 mph winds by noon. I started on a 5.2 at 10:30 and the big 271 Realwind. At noon I was digging out the 4.2 and putting a 8 1/2 wave fin on the 261. The swells on the out side were BIG, house size big. The combination of wind and wave movement gave a sensation of wave riding. The swells would ramp up with steep ridable faces for a couple of hundred feet. You could run up drop down, run up and drop down a haft dozen times or more with out losing speed. Jibbing on the swells was sweet, big smooth faces with wide spacing, you could drop in and just stand on your board making small cut backs or just do a big lazy turn. I WANT MORE!!!!


Posted: Wed - January 5, 2005 at 04:12 PM          

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