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 Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:58 am Post subject: CT windsurf areas |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:16 am Post subject: Re: CT windsurf areas |
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Well, my vote is all the way east at the Barn Island boat launch. It's a
nice spot with easy access and great conditions on anything except Northwest
and even then it's sometimes doable. The best conditions are southwest to
west especially on an outgoing tide when the slot between Sandy Point (an
island) and Napa Tree Point can have a sweet chop. People who like waves
can work their way upwind and outside to sail off the western end of Napa
Tree and flat water is available in the lee of Sandy Point. There's a core
group of people who sail there whenever it's windy. Rigging is easy in the
beachgrass, in the paved parking lot or on a patch of gravel by the kayak
launch. We regularly get people from southeastern and central connecticut.
For me, it helps that I live right nearby. I wish it were windier; this
summer was particularly dead. There's a curious setup that prevents warm
damp wind from the south from reaching the surface. If there's any chance
of a stagnant boundary layer it'll shut off the wind. But by the same
token, when the wind shifts from the northwest to the west, it sets up a
pumping action that gets us a smoking westerly with wind shooting down Long
Island Sound that's simply awesome by the time it gets to Stonington.
There's boat traffic in the summer, but it's not too bad. Most of it is in
the channel which is easily avoided.
It's easy to find. Off Interstate 95 at exit 91, follow Pequot Trail to
Farmholme Rd and take the right all the way to the tee intersection at Rte 1
then a right to the set of lights at Greenhaven Rd (left) and a quick right
onto Palmer Neck Rd. From Farmholme it's a quick right, left, right and
straight on down to the end and a big parking lot. The lot gets filled in
the summer with boaters and fishermen, but when the wind picks up in the
afternoon, there are plenty of parking spots. Sometimes we double up in the
extra long spots that are there for cars with trailers, but that's good too.
Looking like it's going to be nice this weekend. Southeast and snotty.
Perfect.
People sail at Hamonnasett beach and Lighthouse Point in East Haven, though
I've only been to each once in twenty four years. If I'm looking for a road
trip, I'll go to Narragansett bay or the Sakonnet river in Rhode Island or
Buzzard's Bay or Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the summer, it's usually
windier the farther east one travels.
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Dan Howitt
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: Re: CT windsurf areas |
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On Oct 23, 5:16 pm, "John Gullotti"
<johnREMOVETHISgullo...@comcast.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Well, my vote is all the way east at the Barn Island boat launch. It's a
nice spot with easy access and great conditions on anything except Northwest
and even then it's sometimes doable. The best conditions are southwest to
west especially on an outgoing tide when the slot between Sandy Point (an
island) and Napa Tree Point can have a sweet chop. People who like waves
can work their way upwind and outside to sail off the western end of Napa
Tree and flat water is available in the lee of Sandy Point. There's a core
group of people who sail there whenever it's windy. Rigging is easy in the
beachgrass, in the paved parking lot or on a patch of gravel by the kayak
launch. We regularly get people from southeastern and central connecticut.
For me, it helps that I live right nearby. I wish it were windier; this
summer was particularly dead. There's a curious setup that prevents warm
damp wind from the south from reaching the surface. If there's any chance
of a stagnant boundary layer it'll shut off the wind. But by the same
token, when the wind shifts from the northwest to the west, it sets up a
pumping action that gets us a smoking westerly with wind shooting down Long
Island Sound that's simply awesome by the time it gets to Stonington.
There's boat traffic in the summer, but it's not too bad. Most of it is in
the channel which is easily avoided.
It's easy to find. Off Interstate 95 at exit 91, follow Pequot Trail to
Farmholme Rd and take the right all the way to the tee intersection at Rte 1
then a right to the set of lights at Greenhaven Rd (left) and a quick right
onto Palmer Neck Rd. From Farmholme it's a quick right, left, right and
straight on down to the end and a big parking lot. The lot gets filled in
the summer with boaters and fishermen, but when the wind picks up in the
afternoon, there are plenty of parking spots. Sometimes we double up in the
extra long spots that are there for cars with trailers, but that's good too.
Looking like it's going to be nice this weekend. Southeast and snotty.
Perfect.
People sail at Hamonnasett beach and Lighthouse Point in East Haven, though
I've only been to each once in twenty four years. If I'm looking for a road
trip, I'll go to Narragansett bay or the Sakonnet river in Rhode Island or
Buzzard's Bay or Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the summer, it's usually
windier the farther east one travels.
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