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A nice comfortable temp but once again the wind hasn't cooperated. I used the Allstar 70 on the Bay for the first time, and I might do it again. It was quite different than the Carve, which I also used. The Allstar was slippery so I'm going to re-deck it but it did plane better. I cramped up a little in the calves. I haven't been eating enough lately (ha! amazing I said that).
I saw a small snake of some sort slither away while I was slogging along, too. It was FAST! Holy cow, it hit a burst that could have outgunned me planing.
One of the big things I wanted to do today was to try my harness lines back. I read a tip in Boards Magazine that some windsurfers who learned in the 80's when you raked back the sail to "close the gap" are still doing that, but shouldn't be. Part of that is the harness line placement. Now, I'll say right here that my harness lines are perfectly balanced. I can take both hands off for decent stretches. However, they are balanced too far forward -- yes, strange but true. To achieve this, my whole body position was out of whack. So, I took the advice in the article and moved my lines back to where they said to. It worked, too. There was an uncomfortable "gonna catapult" feeling, but that's what the article's author said would happen, but I would learn to overcome it (like we all did when we first started getting into the straps). It didn't feel good at all slogging but I was able to get on a plane easier. The board would really take off better and sheet in properly. Once planing -- rare today but it happened -- it felt good. And, I was in better balance. That's the key, as with my other technique I was compensating by leaning forward too much and that's a good way to keep the board on the water, instead of getting in a position to loft some big jumps, which is what I want to do now.
In the end, I moved the lines forward about an inch, and it felt better. They are still way further back, probably four or five inches. I measured two of my friends line placement and it jived.
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