soliver
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Thursday Sunset Session on SSI, East Beach
Hey guys, anyone local or still around after JIBE, I am planning to get the kids to bed early on Thursday and have a sunset session on East Beach (on
Saint Simons Island)... Probably around 8:00 pm.
I went out on East Beach yesterday at low tide and it looked like a big load of awesome for buggying.
Join in if you like.
I've sent out a few U2Us to a couple of you who I know are around with my cell #.
I'm going to take a nap now
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JimSSI
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Location: Saint Simons Island GA
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Mood: I know why the wind blows...
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Yep - calendared.
If NW - NE wind, up at Gould's Inlet at the north end of SSI is good.
If SW - SE, the spit off of the Coast Guard Station.
If East - ahhhhh, East. All of the above and in between....
We can even enjoy W winds - you can get far enough from the tree line at low tide to get some clean wind.
Some men call me.... "Jim."
PL Reactor 2.2, 3.5, 4.4, 5.5, 6.9, 8.6, 10.8
PL XR++, PL XR+ (anybuddy wanna buggy?)
VTT Black Widow Stinger
NAPKA-US49
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soliver
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Forecast looks to be SSE for Thursday afternoon.
I had an absolutely OUTSTANDING session on East Beach at the Coastguard station this evening. It just worked out that the kids were down and I got out
there by 7:00 and rode until the sun was no more. I met John (Local I've met at JIBE before, but pretty sure he didn't remember me)... I saw him
briefly Friday afternoon this year and we rode together a little. He had a lot more upwind capability with his Blurr than I and was traveling all the
way south as far as what looked like (past) 5th street,... but I stayed on the tip of the coast guard station beach and rode the crap out of that
spot. Started out with the 7m and felt overpowered, so switched to the 5.5m. I didn't have a GPS with me, but I had to be hitting almost 30 mph toward
the end... I'll try to get it working by Thur.
It was fabulous seeing the deep red sunset through the red an white of my 5.5m NS3... it was quite loverly.
I'm going to take a nap now
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3shot
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Location: Virginia
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Glad some of you guys can still ride down there this week. Miss it badly...
Cross Kites Sonic 3, 5m
Ozone Flow 2, 3, 4, 5m
Ace II 4, 5m
NAPKA-US24
4, 5, 6m ATB landsurfer. Custom longboard deck
Buggy: VTT Black Widow v2.0
 
http://hint.fm/wind/
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soliver
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Planning to go out again tonight!
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soliver
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What an awesome session. Jim met me out on East Beach and the wind was perfectly on the shore probably 10 to 12 mph . Two more locals showed up (one
guy who was brand new in the sport who's name I forget and a guy named Elijah who grew up on SSI and lives in San Diego here visiting family) and we
all rode together. It was pretty awesome.
I'm going to take a nap now
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soliver
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Another outstanding sunset session today. I am indeed in love with my Nasa Stars... Flew the crap out of the 5.5m until it was almost too dark to see
to pack up. JimSSI met me again and was having a blast with his Reactors, as well as John the local I met on Tuesday.... It was a great time!
I was running my GPS and my GoPro... beat my PB!!! Made it up to 28.5 mph... unfortunately, it was too dark to get a good photo of it, so I intended
to do so back at the rental, but forgot to turn off my GPS and lost the top speed (driving home) before I could get a photo of it  ... I'm sure I got lots of good footage I'll look through once I finish editing the
footage I have from November 2015 
I'm going to take a nap now
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