| Date |
Where |
Wind |
Rig |
How it went |
| Sat 5/29 | Event Site | 18-22 | 5.5 / big | Opening day! The water is freezing. Fell on my first jibe, my second jibe and my third jibe. Made the fourth. Winter legs. |
| Sun 5/30 | Event Site | 20-25 | 5.0 / big | Much better. Andrea's first day back too. Sailed until six and ate burgers on the grass. |
| Mon 5/31 | Event Site | 5-10 | no sail | Memorial Day. Sat on the grass from 11 to 3 and the wind never came. Went for a hike up the hill instead. Not a total loss. |
| Fri 6/4 | Event Site | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | First little-board day of the year. Water started on the first try and was so proud of myself I fell off right away. |
| Sat 6/5 | - | - | no sail | Rain in Portland, no wind in the Gorge. Stayed home and replaced my harness lines. |
| Sat 6/12 | Event Site | 20-24 | 5.0 / big | Jibe practice all afternoon, back and forth in front of the grass. 4 out of 10. |
| Sun 6/13 | Event Site | 22-28 | 4.5 / little | Gusty. Got launched over the front of the board twice. I have a bruise on my shin the shape of Ohio. |
| Fri 6/18 | Hatchery | 26-30 | 4.5 / little | First Hatchery day of the year. Watched for an hour, then went out. Big swell. Stayed close to Kerry. |
| Sat 6/19 | Event Site | 20-25 | 5.0 / big | Kerry's birthday. We sailed, then she made us all eat cake at the picnic table in our wetsuits. |
| Sat 6/26 | Event Site | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | WORST DAY. Downhaul line broke halfway across. Got clear of the channel, took the rig apart in the water, rolled the sail on the boom and paddled 40 minutes to the Oregon shore, a long way west of the Event Site. Andrea and Kerry walked the bank to meet me. New line that night, plus a spare. |
| Sun 6/27 | - | - | no sail | Stayed home. Put the spare downhaul in my gear bag, where it now lives forever. Sat on the couch and felt sorry for myself. |
| Fri 7/2 | Event Site | 22-26 | 5.0 / big | Back on the horse. Every time I got to the middle of the river I looked at my downhaul. |
| Sat 7/3 | Event Site | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | Holiday crowd. Took twenty minutes to find a spot on the grass to rig. Great wind, though. |
| Sun 7/4 | Hatchery | 28-33 | 4.0 / little | Nuking! The Fourth of July, and the wind brought its own fireworks. 6 out of 10 jibes. |
| Mon 7/5 | Event Site | 15-18 | 5.5 / big | Light and lovely. Spent an hour in the beginner cove helping a nervous woman from Ohio learn to pull her sail up. Remembered 1994 very clearly. |
| Fri 7/9 | - | - | no sail | Had to work a Friday. Andrea called from the beach at four to tell me it was nuking. Thanks, Andrea. |
| Sat 7/10 | Event Site | 24-28 | 4.5 / little | Made up for Friday. |
| Sun 7/11 | Event Site | 20-24 | 5.0 / big | 7 out of 10 jibes! First time ever over half. Told everybody on the grass whether they wanted to hear it or not. |
| Sat 7/17 | Hatchery | 26-30 | 4.5 / little | Small jumps off the swell. Landed flat every time, which is not how it's supposed to work, but I landed. |
| Sun 7/18 | Event Site | 10-15 | no sail | Drove out, too light for me. Read a whole paperback on the grass. |
| Fri 7/23 | Hatchery | 28-32 | 4.5 / little | BEST DAY. Big swell, steady wind, and everything worked. Ten jibes in a row without falling. First real air off the top of a swell. Sat in the car afterward grinning like an idiot. |
| Sat 7/24 | Hatchery | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | Tried to do it all again. Did not. Fell in about thirty times. The river keeps you humble. |
| Sun 7/25 | - | - | no sail | Rest day. My forearms insisted. |
| Sat 7/31 | Event Site | 18-22 | 5.5 / big | Light. Just cruised back and forth. Nice to sail without trying to prove anything. |
| Sun 8/1 | Event Site | 22-26 | 5.0 / big | Kerry let me try her new sail. I want one. My credit card says no. |
| Fri 8/6 | Event Site | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | Hot! First short-sleeve wetsuit day. |
| Sat 8/7 | Hatchery | 30-35 | 4.0 / little | Nuking for real. Two hours was all I had in me, and I spent part of that sitting on the board catching my breath. |
| Sun 8/8 | - | - | no sail | Too sore from Saturday. Took my own advice for once and stayed home with an ice pack. |
| Fri 8/13 | Event Site | 24-28 | 4.5 / little | Friday the 13th. Broke a fin on a rock coming in. Of course I did. |
| Sat 8/14 | - | - | no sail | A friend's wedding in Salem. I wore a sleeveless dress over a wetsuit tan. The photographer was very patient. |
| Fri 8/20 | Event Site | 5-12 | no sail | Drove out after a half day at the clinic. Glassy river, zero wind. Ate huckleberry ice cream and drove home. |
| Sat 8/21 | Hatchery | 27-32 | 4.5 / little | Back to the Hatchery. Made all my jibes on the big swells and fell on the easy ones. Explain that. |
| Sun 8/22 | Event Site | 8-12 | no sail | Flat. We all sat around and talked about yesterday. |
| Sun 8/29 | Event Site | 18-22 | 5.5 / big | Took Andrea's little sister out in the cove. She's a natural, which I'm trying not to resent. |
| Fri 9/3 | - | - | no sail | Worked. Everybody wants their knee looked at before the long weekend. |
| Sat 9/4 | Hatchery | 28-33 | 4.0 / little | Labor Day weekend. Nuking. Huge swell. I got scared once, came in, sat for a while, went back out. That counts as growth. |
| Sun 9/5 | Event Site | 25-30 | 4.5 / little | Packed beach, everybody squeezing in one more weekend. Good wind all afternoon. |
| Mon 9/6 | Event Site | 20-24 | 5.0 / big | Last day of the season for me. 8 out of 10 jibes. Sat on the grass until the sun went down behind the hills, then drove home slow. |
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