Bonner Bridge is now OPEN... Andy posted this yesterday.

Problems with supports force NCDOT to close Bonner Bridge! Back to the Ferry?

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2013/12/03/breaking-bonner-bridge-closed-due-to-safety-concerns/

Canadian Hole New parking lot! Nice and Convenient!

UNITED STATES ANNUAL AVERAGE WIND POWER MAP

2013 10 07 SBX 30+ knots day wavesailing posted by Fathom

HATTERAS CLOSURES DURING GOVERMENT SHUT DOWN!

Residents and visitors can expect wide-ranging consequences tomorrow if there is a government shutdown.

They include:

• By 7 a.m. all ramps on the seashore – on the oceanside and the soundside – will be chained.
• All visitor centers and maintenance and administrative facilities will be closed.
• The road to the Bodie Island Lighthouse will be blocked.  The Lighthouse Road in Buxton will be blocked just beyond Flowers Ridge Road.
• All ORV permit offices will be closed.
• All parking areas on the soundside and the oceanside will be closed and secured – including facilities at Coquina Beach, Ocracoke Day Use Area, Canadian Hole, Kite Point, the Frisco Bathhouse, and Sandy Bay day use area. Also closed and secured will be all parking areas at various oceanside ramps on Hatteras and Ocracoke.
• Campers will have 48 hours after Tuesday at 6 p.m. to clear the campgrounds.
• Commercial operations within the seashore will also close, including the Avon Pier, Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, and businesses that offer attractions such as horseback riding on the beach. The Fishing Center will have until 6 p.m. Thursday to close down.
• The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, a state-owned facility on park land, will remain open.
• The three airstrips in the park area will be closed.
• All National Park Service websites will be closed down, and visitors to the sites will get a message about the shutdown.

Plattsburg 9-21-13 ... wish I was there. from Yvente.. thank you for sharing your video

Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival September 28th-29th, 2013 Plattsburgh, NY

Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival
September 28th-29th, 2013
Plattsburgh, NY

Please join us for a weekend full of windsurfing fun! See below for a tentative schedule of events. These are all wind/condition dependent but regardless we are going to be at the beach with demos and clinics, so mark your calendars for the weekend of September 28th and 29th.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
9am: Pancake breakfast with proceeds supporting the Imaginarium Children’s Museum
Freestyle feature
Bump-n-Jump
Long Distance Fun Race around a buoy and back
Evening music/BBQ
Sunday September 29, 2013
10am start
Family Fun Relay
Windsurfing, Kiteboarding, and Paddleboard exhibition
Cumberland bay long distance race with boats assist
2pm: Closing BBQ with awards, prizes, raffle and live music
2 Rad Windsurfing: Exhibitor
Pros Coming: Kevin Pritchard and Tyson Poor
Windsport Magazine Editor: Pete DeKay

2013 Gorge Freestyle Frenzy & Big Air

who is the true master of the floaty jump? Our vote goes to Dale Cook

Gran Canaria Wind and Waves Festival 2013_Teaser

St. Jean last saturday 5-25-13---Lucky Canadians

Lake Champlain search for windsurfer a false alarm

Lake Champlain search for windsurfer a false alarm

Posted: May 15, 2013 5:23 PM EDT Updated: May 15, 2013 6:01 PM EDT

By Jennifer Reading - bio | email

BURLINGTON, Vt. - A search for a windsurfer on Lake Champlain ended in a false alarm.
Just before noon, the Coast Guard was dispatched to the waters off Apple Tree Point in Burlington.
A homeowner reported a windsurfer in distress, but rescue crews found nothing in the water or on the shoreline.
The search was suspended after nearly 2.5 hours.
The Coast Guard says it's likely the windsurfer got back up on his board and returned to shore.

THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN FORECAST...marine forecast is back up and running.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/BTV/RECBTV

HATTERAS VACATION 2013

Sunny and warm but pretty windless week (4-13-13 thru 4-20-13).. sailed one day 4-19-13...4.8 sail on an 85ltr board from noon to 4:30. Had a great time with my girlfriend and my kids.I always wondered what they did when I went windsurfing years past. the day just slip away hanging out.

Lake Champlain is open for business. FOR THE CRAZY CANADIANS From Canadaian Windsurfing Facebook page;

APRIL 7, 2013 Its not often you get sandstormed at the beach but when you do... its bloody windy. 3.7 -4.7 but it felt nuclear. Fun to feel breaking waves again and the cold water seemed to give them a little more punch. I started out with my light gloves and froze the hell out of my fingers within minutes. 20 minutes later I was at the car having a screaming session as the fingers thawed out (forgot what that felt like). Got some good gloves on and did another hour or so up near the reef with the boys but I was really over on the 4.7. I need to start thinking like a small guy now that I lost some pounds :-)

Thinking About Hatteras

April 1992 - Hatteras road trip. Chevy Caviler, Bic Astro Rock, Mistral Stinger, Nautics Boom, A new quiver of sailworks sails still in the box! I Still look forward to my vacation in Haterras each year.

BACKLOOP

Mascoma Lake Windsurfing site

Looks like the pull-off along RTE.4A on Mascoma Lake is gone. New guardrails have been put in and no place to rig. I thought this was a public fishing access! Can someone check into this. Brian

Winter Windsurfing in Russia, Ice boarding & snow kiting

windsurfing on skates, with a kitchen laddle

Jericoacoara 2012

I THINK WE NEED TO PLAN A TRIP HERE NEXT DECEMBER 2013.