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Puerto Rico...

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Created by LeeD > 9 months ago, 3 Jan 2022
LeeD
3939 posts
3 Jan 2022 11:18AM
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Been here 2 weeks. 1st 3 days, good wind and major jetlag.
Been "10-15" since, except for 2 days last week of 21.
Now, predictions for "10-15" for the next week.
What to do with windsurf 5.5 and 100 liter board for a 74 kg rider?
Any other gear is basically impossible to come by.
When it gusts to "17", I'm solidly planing, but that is minimum.

mathew
QLD, 2133 posts
3 Jan 2022 3:51PM
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Dude - you are awesome and you have more knowledge about all aspects of windsurfing than any other person on this planet.
Just say "I am awesome" and you will get planing. Good luck with that.

ka43
NSW, 3091 posts
3 Jan 2022 5:47PM
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Obviously name dropping there isnt helping??

Imax1
QLD, 4925 posts
3 Jan 2022 5:08PM
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Wouldn't it be better asking the Puerto Ricons ?
I know we are neighbors and basically the same people , but , still.....

powersloshin
NSW, 1836 posts
3 Jan 2022 7:29PM
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vaias a buscar qualcher senorita...

LeeD
3939 posts
3 Jan 2022 7:38PM
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Yeah, love your answers....thanks.
Just bored. Waves too big at some beaches with onshore wind......but others, waves almost too small.
Can't seem to find anything in the 1 meter sizing, which at least could be ridden with conditions and gear on hand.
Too decrepit to surf head high shorepound in onshore slop.
Paradise is not always perfect.

Sandman1221
2776 posts
3 Jan 2022 11:51PM
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LeeD said..
Yeah, love your answers....thanks.
Just bored. Waves too big at some beaches with onshore wind......but others, waves almost too small.
Can't seem to find anything in the 1 meter sizing, which at least could be ridden with conditions and gear on hand.
Too decrepit to surf head high shorepound in onshore slop.
Paradise is not always perfect.



Why did you not go to Bonaire? Tons of windsurfing rental equipment, huge lagoon. Or Baja California, Sea of Cortez, great windsurfing resort there too.

LeeD
3939 posts
4 Jan 2022 6:38AM
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Been coming here for 10 years. Beats 42 degrees and rain in San Francisco.
Been doing water sports too long to want it year round. Need the break of around 4 months.
Been windsurfing around 170 days a year past 10 years, about 100 per for 27 rears before that.

jn1
SA, 2632 posts
4 Jan 2022 10:02AM
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Hi Lee, Could you post some pics of where you're sailing ?

Carantoc
WA, 7173 posts
4 Jan 2022 7:45AM
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LeeD said..
.. Can't seem to find anything in the 1 meter sizing...


I though Puerto Rico was part of the US of A ?

If so then maybe look for something in the 3 to 4 feet range ?

LeeD
3939 posts
4 Jan 2022 8:34AM
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Seabreeze is an Aussie based forum.
Metric.

LeeD
3939 posts
4 Jan 2022 8:38AM
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Pic?
I'm lucky I can turn this cellphone on.
Search Ceiba, PR. Looks exactly that. Small beachbreak closeout, sandy beach, onshore breeze, long wave rides into 6" of water...8" wave fin.

Mr Milk
NSW, 3115 posts
4 Jan 2022 11:58AM
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LeeD said..
Seabreeze is an Aussie based forum.
Metric.


"Been coming here for 10 years. Beats 42 degrees and rain in San Francisco."

Didn't think climate change had warmed California up that much

LeeD
3939 posts
4 Jan 2022 9:29AM
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Ok, you got me flummoxed.....
I'm in PR.
I normally live 17 miles from San Francisco.
It's 82 degrees f here.
It's 46 degrees right now in SF.
Plenty of New Years, there is snow down to the surf in SF. Meaning, sub 35.

azymuth
WA, 2154 posts
4 Jan 2022 9:32AM
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LeeD said..
Ok, you got me flummoxed.....
I'm in PR.
I normally live 17 miles from San Francisco.
It's 82 degrees f here.
It's 46 degrees right now in SF.
Plenty of New Years, there is snow down to the surf in SF. Meaning, sub 35.





John340
QLD, 3363 posts
4 Jan 2022 3:55PM
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azymuth said..



LeeD said..
Ok, you got me flummoxed.....
I'm in PR.
I normally live 17 miles from San Francisco.
It's 82 degrees f here.
It's 46 degrees right now in SF.
Plenty of New Years, there is snow down to the surf in SF. Meaning, sub 35.











Yes, Australia has been metric since the early 70s. If a number is posted without units, then we assume it's metric, hence LeeD's reference to 42 to most of the readers meant 42 degrees Celsius or about 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the old money.

However with board and wind speed, the standard used in the Australian sailing community is knots and not mph or KMPH.

LeeD
3939 posts
4 Jan 2022 9:06PM
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Confusing because most of my posts are after 11pm my time.

mathew
QLD, 2133 posts
5 Jan 2022 1:06PM
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LeeD said..
Confusing because most of my posts are after 11pm my time.


Is that Solar time or Metric time ?

kato
VIC, 3507 posts
5 Jan 2022 2:59PM
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John340 said..

azymuth said..









Yes, Australia has been metric since the early 70s. If a number is posted without units, then we assume it's metric, hence LeeD's reference to 42 to most of the readers meant 42 degrees Celsius or about 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the old money.

However with board and wind speed, the standard used in the Australian sailing community is knots and not mph or KMPH.


1966

Ian K
WA, 4155 posts
5 Jan 2022 12:21PM
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kato said..
John340 said..

azymuth said..









Yes, Australia has been metric since the early 70s. If a number is posted without units, then we assume it's metric, hence LeeD's reference to 42 to most of the readers meant 42 degrees Celsius or about 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the old money.

However with board and wind speed, the standard used in the Australian sailing community is knots and not mph or KMPH.


1966


I didn't think you were old enough to remember the jingle Kato? But that was just currency, fahrenheit went to the seventies.


You probably remember this one as well?

jn1
SA, 2632 posts
5 Jan 2022 11:02PM
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LeeD said..
Pic?
I'm lucky I can turn this cellphone on.
Search Ceiba, PR. Looks exactly that. Small beachbreak closeout, sandy beach, onshore breeze, long wave rides into 6" of water...8" wave fin.


Nice. Lots of jungley hills. They look volcanic.

LeeD
3939 posts
6 Jan 2022 7:29AM
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Next 5 days...."10-15" ......

WindmanV
VIC, 788 posts
6 Jan 2022 12:40PM
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Re Ian K's reference to Dollar Bill.

Our Prime Minister at the time, Sir Robert Menzies (an Anglophile), was pushing hard to have our currency called "The Royal"!

Thus began my lifelong suspicion of politicians.

AUS1111
WA, 3621 posts
6 Jan 2022 3:51PM
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anyway we're all looking forward to seeing images of these 10 -15 inch waves

seanhogan
QLD, 3424 posts
6 Jan 2022 7:31PM
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and here's me thinking it was 10-15 km/h winds....



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