I can give you his contact info if you want.
Check out www.windsurfatlanta.org
We sail at Lake Lanier and Lake Allatoona. This is not a windy place,
but we have our moments.
Randy
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kev
Maybe he's just a golfer... Golfers always think it's too windy.
Dog
I sell some big sails into Atlanta - never small ones. And the locals
who've gone to Atlanta have either come back or just bitch about the
lack of wind. Even my non-sailing sister who lives there says I'd hate
it.
Atlanta = great golfing, lousing windsurfing
Dog
We live in the Atlanta area but don't even bother trying to windsurf
here. About the only good wind is in the winter when the water and air
is cold. Both local lakes have hills around the edges and the wind that
does appear is poor and inconsistent/gusty. In the summer, if there is
some wind, there are also a bunch of boats around..
On the other hand, it does give us a good excuse to make more visits to
places like Aruba and Bonair ;-)
I've always had some good sailing in the panhandle in winter & spring;
everyone I've met down there always seems to be from Atlanta, so it
can't be too far.....
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>Atlanta is the place where the wind comes die. If you have an extremely
>flexable schedule (I mean being self-employed and can drop work at a moments
>notice), you may get 20 short boardable days a year (7.0 and smaller). Half
>of those are days will be in temps below 55 degrees. You can definitely
>increase time with Formula gear -- the problem though is that winds are
>rarely steady. So on light wind days it might be lulls of 4-5 mph for 10
>minutes withs gusts to 12 for another 10 mintues. Its not like going to
>beach with a steady 8-10kts where you could actually be planing most of the
>time with the big gear. It truely is a terrible place for windsurfing!
I haven't sailed much in Atlanta, but have known some fine sailors who
live there. Randy came up and sailed with me one day and had even
better lightwind gear than I do, was probably 10 lbs.lighter than me,
and just plain outsailed me. It was a blast!
Our club in Nashville had 250+ members in the early nineties, but we
could never get racing to the same level as did Atlanta. They have
about the same winds as Nashville, but always had a core group of
serious racers who kicked butt.
If your idea of a shortboardable day is 7.0 and smaller, I hope you
are not over 120 lbs. because that will certainly limit your TOW.
Your description of Atlanta's light wind days is also an accurate
description of *some* of Nashville's light wind days and those are the
days I don't sail. On the light days I sail, it might be 6-8 in the
holes, average winds 10-16, gusts to 20-ish. I can rig 10.5 and plane
most of the time or rig 7.5 and maximize fun in the gusts.
Is Atlanta truely is a terrible place for windsurfing? I would say
that depends on how spoiled you are (no offense, we are talking about
wind), but don't discount that Atlanta has a darned good club, some
serious racers, an annual learn to windsurf thing and a couple of
shops. There are much worse places to be.
I lived in Nashville for a while and the weather is similar, The only
time the sailing was dependable was when a hurricane kicked thru, so,
thats maybe 4-5 days a year.
other than that it was total hit or miss. Winter was definitly the
most windy, but then water was cold, - no ice though! - I sailed a
10.5 90% of the time, Sometimes I managed to use my 7.5 and on only 1
occasion in 1.5 years did I ever use a 6.5.
- katrina -
others have posted the link to the local group, and there are other
sailers around, but I think most head to the east - hilton head - or
south to FL
Good luck!
Dave
oh,
I think this is linked to in the groups page, but, its a pretty active
local swap / used site
>I lived in Nashville for a while and the weather is similar, The only
>time the sailing was dependable was when a hurricane kicked thru, so,
>thats maybe 4-5 days a year.
>other than that it was total hit or miss. Winter was definitly the
>most windy, but then water was cold, - no ice though! - I sailed a
>10.5 90% of the time, Sometimes I managed to use my 7.5 and on only 1
>occasion in 1.5 years did I ever use a 6.5.
> - katrina -
OTOH, I've used 5.5 twice this year and wore a 3/2 only once; the rest
of the time I've been in swim trunks.
Weather in Nashville has changed a lot since the late 80's / early
90's, when you could sail 5.5 15 to 20 days in the middle of summer.
Things really dropped off in the late 90's, but it seems to me that
weather is becoming more like it was in the good old days. Isn't
everyone seeing more wind now that they did 5 years ago?
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> Weather in Nashville has changed a lot since the late 80's / early
> 90's, when you could sail 5.5 15 to 20 days in the middle of summer.
> Things really dropped off in the late 90's, but it seems to me that
> weather is becoming more like it was in the good old days. Isn't
> everyone seeing more wind now that they did 5 years ago?
Certainly not over here in Charlotte, nor the coast.
Alan
>Certainly not over here in Charlotte, nor the coast.
>
>Alan
Well that sucks. :(
yea there no good windsurfing in atlanta .....stay away!