Oceanside Open Day 1(Sat).

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Oceanside Open Day 1(Sat).

I arrived Oceanside launch around 1pm and hang-waited for hours due to the nonstop on/off rain squalls and strong gusty wind speed of 25-30mph. I was told it was blowing 40 mph this morning. The rain finally stopped at 4:20pm with the wind dropping down to approx 15-20mph out of SSW. I made my first launch at 5:10pm and flew for 3 hours (landed at 8:05pm) and topped out 1,300ft. There was a lot of rotor/sink when l launch​ed, as the actually wind direction was more south. I had the entire sky to myself for a couple of hours, until later joined by two more hangs (Gabe and Ken launched after 7:00pm) when the wind turned more west and a bit lighter. Gabe and l headed down to Happy Camp sharing the south facing ridge with paragliders, Steve Carpentier and Dave Auman who launched off from Superman lower launch earlier. I captured a lot of footage of Steve and Gabe over Happy Camp and will post it probably Monday. The food at the party was great. Hopefully weather will be better tomorrow. 

Rick

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Here's a video of Steve Forslund's Saturday evening flight taken by Brad Henry - friend and visiting pilot from Chilliwack, BC.