Nice re****t. Thanks for sharing it.
Stay on the positive vibe.
Jeff
On Jul 7, 12:09=A0am, tenA <cec...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> howdy!
> its been a while since I've written, its been a while since I've
> sailed - especially after a couple of less than graceful bay area
> sesh's - one "taste of the bay" session had me dragging my defeated
> mind/body/gear slowly out of waste deep Coyote bay muck. To help with
> the healing process I saved my season opener this year for our July
> 4th Maui trip. Maui never disappoints, but this year's re****t reads
> waaay to short due to some strange for July weather system. We only
> had 3 out of 8 Kanaha sailing days - with one of those days presenting
> nasty shorepound, much like the big panhandle storm stuff I've seen in
> Florida. After 2 hours of unsuccessful attempts to get thru the inside
> gusty shorepound I gave up, defeated and sad. =A0I walked my sail to the
> car and as I hung my harness on the tree to dry I thought, you know
> maybe this s****t just aint' for me, I gave it my best shot but I still
> suck. Hmmm. I walked back to the beach to get my board, was watching
> the sailors when a woman approached me and started talking. Her name
> was Lori, she'd just arrived on the island from MI and was jonesing
> bad for Maui's warm waters and Kanaha's =A0"friendly waves" but had to
> go pick up a delayed friend at the air****t. Her stoke was so strong
> that soon she had me forgetting about my bad day, and about all my bad
> days last year in SF, she made me forget that I've been sailing 3.5
> years now and still can't do this and that, and told me how long it
> took her to do this and that, and how the 10 minutes of killer sailing
> time you get in a session eventually turns into 20 minutes and then 60
> minutes, etc. We laughed about thick ass wetsuits and we bonded over
> our failures and successes on the water! Suddenly I was feeling very
> good, I was thinking about getting back on the water and sailing- I
> could not wait to get back out there again the next day---thanks to my
> Kanaha Angel. Happy to say the next day turned out to be perfect-
> winds averaging 25 with gusts to 30 mph and I felt great! I =A0downsized
> my board size, was nailing my water starts and staying upwind, made it
> out to the deep blue water on the outside and worked with my BF on
> posture / stance improvements. =A0Thanks to my Kanaha Angel for sharing
> the stoke and reminding that we've got a lifetime to learn and the
> journey is the fun part!
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