Windwing R2 Planform

Pablito · Post by **Pablito** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:46 am

Sounds like a poster who makes his living with a Blackberry... You are a techno wind gypsy. (I was looking for a smiley with a cell phone and a surfboard, but I couldn't find one)

Some of us can't make it to the coast after work, Z. Especially not when it gets dark at $%&# 6:30.

Pablito · Post by **Pablito** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:50 am

Hey, I don't trust the weatherman any more than anyone else, but the long range for the weekend is lookin' stormy.

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Area forecast discussion
National Weather Service Sacramento California
940 am PDT Wednesday Oct 12 2005

Discussion...
no major short term issues going on...but after coordinate with other
offices it seems that there will be a major 'pops' upgrade in the
afternoon package for the ever more certain weekend system. Will be
raising probability of precipitation in our gridded database shortly...and we do anticipate
issuing a Special Weather Statement for the weekend rain/snow and
maybe thunderstorms.

panzerfaust · Post by **panzerfaust** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:08 am

I'll take the one on the right please :)

OliverG · Post by **OliverG** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:48 pm

Pablito wrote:Sounds like a poster who makes his living with a Blackberry... You are a techno wind gypsy. (I was looking for a smiley with a cell phone and a surfboard, but I couldn't find one)

Some of us can't make it to the coast after work, Z. Especially not when it gets dark at $%&# 6:30.

Yeah Z, some of us can't spend all day driving around looking for wind, we got to work. You should be at least burning biodiesel instead of that stinky old #2 diesel polluting everything up in our beautiful state. :roll:

Pablito · Post by **Pablito** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:54 pm

If he made his own biodiesel, it would give him another hobby and maybe he wouldn't taunt us so much with tales of wind in places that we can't get to on weekdays.

I followed his advice to "not believe the hype" about the bad wind forecast and got skunked at SI this afternoon*... So much for the "sail half full" philosophy.

I should have spent three hours today making biodiesel instead of driving 2 hours (round trip) and pumping up my kite for nothing.

*The Ikite wind sensor graph dropped the minute I left my house, from 17 to 15 to 14 to 13 to 12 right about the time I got my kite pumped up.

OliverG · Post by **OliverG** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:39 pm

Here's one I recommended to Chip:

http://www.craigslist.org/eby/car/101601589.html

;)

charlie · Post by **charlie** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:22 am

Pablito
if you pumped you must of had some air moveing?
also old windsurf rule of charlies
"for every sunk you get, the wind owns you one good ses"

ollie for some reson i can see chip in that thing, full of gear in the back!

Pablito · Post by **Pablito** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:10 am

Wow Charlie, that's like, Wind Karma.

Pumped up the 17, but no one was there and I couldn't get the beast to self launch.

OliverG · Post by **OliverG** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:20 pm

Some new pics of the Raptures, here's the 16.5 and the 6.5. That is one tight looking canopy!

dewey · Post by **dewey** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:47 am

They look like a solid wing. Can't wait for Christmas!!!

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