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 !!

4.3 knotsParc national d\'Oka, Canada 05:30:12 pm, GMT-4 Model: gfs27_long, updated 23 minutes ago

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4.3	5.2	4.1	4.7	6.8	9.7	11	9.9	11	5.2	6.8	5.0	2.9	2.1	2.7	8.1	8.3	7.4	2.9	5.8	8.5	11	13	13	13	12	10	9.1	7.4	6.6	6.6	8.3	9.3	7.6	6.4	4.8	6.0	5.4	6.6	8.7	9.7	9.7	6.2	5.6	6.0	4.8	4.1	3.1	4.8	7.0	5.6	3.7	2.5	5.6	8.0	14	17	16	15	15	12	10	13	14	16	14	15	9.9	9.5	9.3	11	10	10	9.1	5.4	6.0	7.8	6.4	7.4	9.9	11	11
7.2	13	12	14	16	21	18	14	14	13	15	10	4.3	2.7	6.2	15	16	19	4.8	11	18	20	18	18	18	17	21	23	16	17	13	9.7	11	12	17	8.0	13	7.8	9.9	11	12	13	10	10	14	5.6	7.8	4.5	7.0	13	12	4.3	3.7	16	23	27	25	25	27	28	24	26	23	19	21	23	29	25	23	23	20	14	13	15	9.5	19	16	15	15	13	14	16
14°	14°	14°	14°	13°	13°	13°	15°	16°	18°	16°	13°	13°	12°	14°	11°	9.5°	8.8°	9.9°	7.4°	4.8°	3.2°	6.7°	8.1°	9.2°	9.2°	7.9°	8.4°	7.8°	7.2°	9.4°	14°	17°	18°	13°	8.8°	7.9°	6.5°	11°	17°	20°	20°	16°	12°	9.7°	8.7°	13°	19°	21°	21°	18°	18°	17°	18°	20°	22°	24°	23°	18°	15°	11°	9.3°	12°	16°	20°	22°	18°	15°	14°	12°	15°	20°	22°	23°	19°	16°	14°	12°	15°	20°	22°	23°
0.8	-	-	-	-	0.3	-	-	-	-	0.7	0.6	1.3	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.5	1.3	0.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5	3.5	2.1	0.8	0.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3	0.6
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	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 !!