Saturday, February 28, 2009

Brainless Windsurfing

It was a nice day at Chapin! At least I think it was. I had new seals put in my drysuit and I didn't prestretch the neck seal enough. It was cutting off the flow of blood to my brain. It's interesting that I could still sail like that. I guess you don't need a brain to windsurf. You just need a functioning lower brain stem and a little animal instinct. Brains get in the way anyway. They worry about everything. This may be the real benefit of wearing a drysuit for Winter sailing. Once the drysuit is on and the blood supply to the brain is squeezed off, it's easy to jump in near freezing water and sail blissfully away.

After the the tide let out and the wind dropped to 10-20, I put up my 3.6 trainer kite and let it drag me around the beach a little. It was good brainless fun, but I don't think I was having as much fun as Tim.

Chapin, Windsurfed, 10-32, NNW, N, 5.2/RW85, With Windsurfers- Igor, Juan, Mike,
Kiters- Tim, Jamie, others.


Photo- Tim hams it up for the camera.

2 comments:

PeconicPuffin said...

"Once the drysuit is on and the blood supply to the brain is squeezed off, it's easy to jump in near freezing water and sail blissfully away."

I'd never thought of that! Another advantage to a drysuit over a heavy duty steamer.

George Markopoulos said...

thats so funny Michael! now i understand the reasoning behind the disregard of commen sense!