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with these strong SE winds coming on Sunday......where is a good place to go in the Bay Area?

Alameda is Golden on SE winds...

scotty
take some time to check out the water condution, and what the locals are up too. this system has a chance to be a bad boy, and you should work your way up to it, not jump right in the middle of it ...
also i would highly recamend a bow,or total depower kite(type wave or other)

Charlie,
Let me know how the Type Wave handles those 50 mph gusts. I hope I don't see any of you guys out the window of my flight... at the same altitude as my plane!

paul
ill be on my9m rapture2
then next the type wave

thanks for the concern charlie, but this won't be my first storm front....I'll be keeping an eye on the offshore buoys at the crack of dawn.....as far as bow kites are concerned, my existing quiver of '05 diesels suited me fine at OB and 3rd all last season.....these new bow kites are still a lot of hype and prototypes...give em a few years to work out the kinks, I'm still not sold on them....I'll take Zeev's stance under his posting on "is the world flat"....

I don't think the winds will be super stong at first tomorrow.. .The current Oakland Forecast is calling for 10kts from the SE at 10AM... increasing to 15kts from the SE at 2PM.... Then much more wind on Monday... Seems to me monday is going to be the high wind day...

As for the Bows... just be sure to try one before writing them off... People said bad things about 4 lines, and the chicken loop. For being a newer style of kite, they are remarkable good fliers.

I have'nt written them off....just happy right now with what I got....Andy, I will see you tomorrow @ Alameda with that bar for my 18m Fuel...Here is an update from Ken Poulton's site:

.tonight...se winds 10 to 20 kt...increasing to 20 to 30 kt late.
wind waves 2 to 4 ft. nw swell 3 to 5 ft at 11 seconds.
.sun...s winds 35 to 45 kt with gusts to 60 kt possible. combined
seas building to 12 to 16 ft with a dominant period of 9 seconds.
rain developing.

the national weather service is calling for the winds to come up on Monday...may be a wait and see.....

funny scotty i couldnt tell...?
the fronts march the same way, as always.
its the spred that worrys me ...any thing near 20 gets funny
heres the 3 pm forcast for the bay

SAN FRANCISCO SAN PABLO SUISUN BAY AND THE WEST DELTA-
300 PM PST SAT FEB 25 2006

...STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH
MONDAY AFTERNOON...

.TONIGHT...SE WINDS INCREASING TO 10 TO 20 KT.
.SUN...S TO SE WINDS INCREASING TO 25 TO 40 KT WITH OCCASIONAL
STORM FORCE GUSTS TO 50 KT DEVELOPING. RAIN DEVELOPING.
.SUN NIGHT...S TO SE WINDS 25 TO 40 KT WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 50
KT...SHIFTING TO THE W THEN DECREASING TO 15 TO 25 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. RAIN.
.MON AND MON NIGHT...S TO SE WINDS INCREASING TO 30 TO 45 KT...WITH
OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 60 KT. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.
.TUE...W WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. SHOWERS LIKELY AND A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

.WED...S WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. SHOWERS BECOMING LIKELY.
.THU...SW WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. SHOWERS.

especially a storm front moving as quickly as this one........it will be fun to check it out even if we can't kite......