E Bay Road 10/3

[Windydoug]

Greg, Bill, Ken, Joe, Dan, Rick, Mark, and Doug headed out to East Bay Rd on the Eastern Fringe of Chimney Bluffs St. Park as Webster Park was unsailable.
All would and did agree, nice sailing. Wind direction was bouncing around and wind speed was changeable in the latter half of the afternoon session, but 5.0 to 5.8 seemed to work for all sailors.
The waves were nice, and felt long as you were sailing down them, not really steep, but the wind was still a click or two below honking, going off, nuking, (insert your blowing like stink term her.

I am proposing giving East Bay Rd. a cool name make over. How about referring to it as E Bay? "You sail yesterday"? "Oh, yeah! We headed to E Bay and it was going off all afternoon". Cool right....or not.

Also, food was good at Orbakers (sp), but due to the poorly ventilated counter area my jacket is hanging outside with my wet suit. Caked on Baked on food smell.

For those curious about the trip, but didn't make it, here is some driving info. Lots o cops on rt. 104.
104 E to Lake Bluff Rd. (go left, right is rt. 414 to N. Rose). Make a right at Loomisville rd. (a couple miles north of 104). Go left onto East Lake Rd (derelict Fire Truck at this intersection) stay on this till it dead ends at the lake. One possibly confusing spot is a "y" in the road where Garner Rd. begins. You must bear sharply right to stay on E. bay Rd. If you get to the state park you have gone the wrong way.
Anybody else want to chime in on this great spot? Greg a.k.a ggb(thanks for making the early drive and getting us all out there!)? Windkid? H2O Rick? Jonesy, Shortboard Joe?
Did any Kite guys get out anywhere?
Windy Doug

[Pat]

E Bay - "I haven't surfed that side of the Webs"

I didn't get out until about 4:00 in Sodus PT.- The wind was blowing up to 24.999 but also down to 5. The direction was changing from 250 - 290 here, so I got a bit nervous when the waves turned totally glassy near shore. When I packed up, a little after five, it felt like it was building again. So I sat there freezing my but off while trying to decide if it was worth going back out. The last two days have seemed like a waste of decent wind .....

[k]

Da Bluffs,

I use to sail there back in the early 90's when "Peer Fear" griped me. I think Mark R. use to sail there as well. Nice place, good for WSW to NW and sometimes a little NE . It's nice to see new blood discovering these sailing sites.

* I stopped going there because I got tired of sailing alone and Webster was closer.

k.

[Windydoug]

E bay photo's are up on the photo site............
WD

[mikeyz]

Guys, I am bummed I didn't make it. I headed out to Durand hoping for it to be good but there wasn't anything. My school friend Shawn was at The Club for a doctors appointment and my other school buddy, Kenny, was on his way there. Howie said it looked good for a west wind, so I headed down just to hangout and maybe sail. The guys were out on their long boards having a blast. They joked around about me being a "wind snob" ... I didn't think it looked good enough. I gave in, rigged my 8.5, headed out, and found wind!!! There were hardly any waves but there was enough wind to stay on plane 80% of time. I even got over powered in some of the gusts too. I tried some carve jibes and stayed dry on a few of them. Kenny noticed that it looked like I was turning too fast, sinking the edge, and then coming off plane. He was right!!! Thanks for the help Kenny.

Shawn and Kenny are new to our sport. Both of them were having a great time and it was great to see how enthusiastic they were about sailing. Shawn was a on a 5.5 and Kenny was on a 4.8 and they were both planing on the big boards. It was pretty impressive.

See you guys out on the water!

[Windydoug]

Phew...I saw "Kenny" in the above post, and images of Ken Jones going to Coney Island and playing the fortune teller game raced through my head (reference to Tom Hanks on the movie BIG). If that happened, and Ken turned into a kid...boy would his new classmates learn a thing or two!
E Bay road is nice Mikey...if the chance arises for some guys to head out there again, go. But first you must place a bid on my gas costs if you are to become a true E Bayer.

Glad Kenny and Shawn are board with windsurfing. Bad year for wind = good year for new guys windsurfing and kiting? who knew?

WD