wind n weather without all those damn ads

 It seems it terms of sites - people are saying this is the ONLY one !!

https://darksky.net/forecast/45.481,-74.0562/us12/en

I may as well set up a widgets page with local sites then - damn it

or maybe it is time to go for iwindsurf or windalert membership 

BUTT they have ads too $%^&*()_ AND barely fit on my screen ...

here's one from windy.app widgets - try sliding the bar :-) or clique the link !!

8.0 knotsParc national d\'Oka, Canada 04:44:20 pm, GMT-4 Model: gfs27_long, updated 3 minutes ago

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8.0	7.4	8.3	11	10	11	10	7.8	6.8	2.1	12	11	4.3	5.8	9.1	11	10	9.9	8.3	6.6	6.4	5.8	5.2	7.6	8.9	9.1	4.3	4.8	3.7	2.9	4.1	8.0	15	14	11	8.5	8.1	17	24	18	16	12	8.0	5.4	3.3	1.0	2.7	3.9	4.3	4.1	1.2	4.1	5.4	8.1	9.9	7.6	2.1	7.4	12	13	10	10	9.7	7.0	11	7.4	4.5	4.7	6.0	5.6	7.2	9.1	10	10	6.2	6.0	5.8	5.4	7.2	2.9	9.5
8.3	10	19	22	18	21	19	12	13	12	24	18	7.2	12	19	18	23	21	20	11	11	10	7.8	8.5	10	11	4.5	8.9	3.9	2.9	7.8	23	30	31	24	21	22	30	33	27	21	16	16	9.3	3.5	1.7	3.1	4.8	5.4	6.0	1.9	4.7	12	16	19	15	11	13	19	19	16	16	11	8.3	13	12	7.2	5.8	16	15	12	11	13	13	9.7	8.1	9.9	11	14	5.4	13
15°	14°	12°	9.7°	7.9°	7.7°	7.2°	7.9°	8.2°	7.8°	7.8°	5.5°	3.6°	3.8°	3.6°	6.4°	7.4°	12°	8.9°	6.5°	5.2°	4.2°	8.0°	14°	17°	17°	13°	9.4°	7.6°	7.8°	11°	18°	20°	18°	17°	16°	16°	16°	9.7°	7.1°	11°	13°	8.4°	5.5°	4.3°	2.9°	6.3°	11°	14°	15°	11°	9.6°	9.1°	8.8°	8.3°	9.1°	10°	9.2°	7.1°	5.1°	4.1°	2.5°	2.5°	5.3°	7.5°	8.9°	6.5°	2.9°	1.0°	-0.4°	4.4°	8.9°	12°	13°	7.8°	4.8°	2.4°	2.9°	4.5°	5.4°	7.8°
-	-	1.0	0.7	0.6	4.2	6.0	2.3	1.6	1.2	0.5	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.3	0.7	0.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.3	1.9	0.6	1.5	2.0	3.0	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.6	7.3	6.3	2.9	1.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.8	3.5	1.6
0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
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Made it to OKA Labour Day Weekend

 All summer I have been avoiding public places due to this covid thingie

Bin goin to the chalet and longboarding it on a small lake up north - actually NE

Wind was supposed to be 20-40 kph from the WSW, but was from the NW and felt stronger - side shore

Started off with my HotSailsMaui SpeedFreak 8.5 sail on the Fanatic Shark 145 HRS using the Hydrotech G10 40 cm weed fin that I purchased this summer. The fin was fine and I was planing NO problem. The issue was the wind was NOT onshore as hoped and the waves were over one foot "au large", but I planed and jumped some waves. When the wind kicked, it was too much for me... I tried to stay closer inshore, but that did not work. Felt like I flew faster than I ever have before - forget footstraps man lol

If I felt more comfortable I think  I could have handled the bigger winds with the NorthSails Duke 6.9 in my Toyota Prius C. At least I can say that I planed a lot on this day :-)

When I arrived I was the first one to park in the 2nd section and when I left, the place was packed. It seemed like there were more kiters than windsurfers .... This pic is from Georgie taken later in the day with a menacing cloud.

Oh yeah .. it was $8.90 for an adult to go to the parc and needed to be purchased online before. Once there it was another $9.94 for parking - wait, that's supposed to be for the beach parking and from the camping area that is blocked off. Means it was almost $20 just to get in the place. 

Last week a 60 year old kite surfer died on the water at les Isles de Madeleines - due to a heart attack. Buddy Marc was there the next day on the same beach and said that was all everyone was talkin about.

So ... I thought that if I could jibe or water start in deep water more readily, perhaps I would have stayed on the water longer on that day ...  By chance I saw Peter Hart's 10 Steps to Gybing which he sells as a DVD - asked about an electronic copy which apparently exists for £17 which is ~ $30 CDN. Sounded like too much money as compared to Dasher's 12 steps on youtube ...

BUT THEN I found this trick on this video which just sounds amazing - fall in the water on the other side ready and in waterstart position - now THAT i gotta try :-)

and i found this one too - quite long and old, but lotsa good info !!

Since September 2020 I made it out to OKA Parc's La Crête about eight(8) times.

COVID-19 and  loss of my van reduced and changed my windsurfing for 2020 entirely !!