Oh, Baby. Seneca Lake 9/26

[Windydoug]

I was only there for about 2 hours, but Seneca served up conditions for my most enjoyable session of the year. Hands down the best place to windsurf in our area. Not as big as Hamburg or Webster or now EBay, but Seneca is as close to the Gorge as you can get. I am sure we can have a good debate about that......

Anyhow, Joe, Greg, Jim, Gary, Bill, Doug, Jason (kiting...and killing it!) were around when I was there. A couple other sails launched from the park, as well as three kites. 4.0-5.0 were the call early, Jason was on a 15m kite. Everybody seemed to be doing their thing really well. Mikey Z showed up for a little goodbye session right as I was leaving.
I had a good laugh at the Victor toll booth as Ed Schmitt passed me and gave a "aren't you going the wrong way?" look.
I heard some more guys arrived for the afternoon session....lets here about it.
WD
BTW, Canandaigua actually had higher and more consistent wind for the day...but it is not the mighty Seneca!

[waterauthorityrick]

On Saturday I had one of my biggest sessions (trees) in Webster; along with me was Louie, Al, Mark and as a bystander Ma don't forget the mascot Emmett.

The session (tree) started slow but the forecast was for the work to pick up once all the rigging was complete and the climber in place. We were all psyched to use the new CMI zinc plated steel block rated for 2 tons and the 3/4 inch super stable braid bull rope. Louie and I used the nickle plated Port-A-Wrap to rope down some pretty large limbs over the recent number of weeks but having the block, eye sling and the Port-A-Wrap combo would surely make rigging much easier along with saving the wear and tear of the 150 foot bull rope.

No sooner was the rigging set approximately 3 stories up the tree I could see the complete roof line of the house and porch only 15 feet away from me I knew the session (tree) was going to be a challenge. With the adrenaline pumping the sound of saws roaring large and small limbs alike were floating down to earth with ease in the trained hands of Louie as he handled the rigging.

There were four large towering trees coming out of the ginormous 4 foot diameter trunk so this was not your regular session (tree) it was four in one. Each knew what was needed to keep the action moving and little was said over the roar of the saws and communication was kept to a few simple hand jesters to signal what was happening next.

At times the wind was making the tree tops sway but I didn't need to worry the forecast was for south winds 10 to 15 mph no one would work in the trees if the forecast was for wind gusts to be 35 mph.

Well the session (tree) went well everyone there did their job with no slip ups as for the weather forecasters now they continue to Fail at their jobs but yet they still have jobs. Go figure.

H2O Rick

PS don't trust the weather men