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New Jersey Windsurfing and Watersports Association Newsletter 1 New Jersey Windsurfing and Watersports Association Newsletter Vol. 6, Issue 1. Spring 2014 Winter Escape: Jeff and Barb, Lac Bay, Bonaire, January 2014 Editing and Layout: Alasdair Gilfillan 6. High School Volunteer opportunities Contributors: Thandi Bradix, Eric Duch, Alasdair 6. On the Water and Corinne Gilfillan, Jim Karabasz, Iceboarding Winter 2014 Tom Latham, Eileen Pfaffman, by Tom Latham Brian Rauch 8. 2nd Wind MotionX-GPS from Eric Duch Photographs and Graphics: 9. Reason For Freezin, March 29 Antoni Dabrowski, Alasdair Gilfillan, 2014 Jim Karabasz, Tom Latham, Eileen by Jim Karabasz Pfaffman, Jimmy Rivera 10. Trip Reports Contents: NJWWA members escape the NE winter: Bonaire 2014 by Alasdair and Corinne Page Article Gilfillan 12. Bonaire Trip: Feb 16-23, 2014 2. From the Editor by Thandi Bradix 2. From the President 14. Information source for NJWWA 3. 2014 NJWWA Schedule of Events members #3 5. ABK Clinic coming to NJ Helmets (Could’a been my head) By Eileen Pfaffman 5. Club News and Updates 15. Disclaimer, Past and Future Issues 5. Update on Seaside access 16. Sponsors By Brian Rauch 6. 2014 NJWWA Calendar 2 From the Editor From the President by Tom Latham One would have thought that, with the awful winter we have just gone through, the activities of our club members would I guess I’m one of those that believe when life gives you have been severely curtailed. Not so. The thick ice that lemons, you make lemonade. When presented with record formed on the inland lakes, ponds, and rivers, and also on cold temperatures, I go iceboarding. Opportunities to get out the coastal bays and inlets, provided terrific conditions for on clear, hard ice can be few and far apart. I’ve found the freeskating (windsurfing on a skated sled), ice kiting and ice most success connecting with fellow iceboarding enthusiasts boating. This is in direct contrast to last year when the by using Facebook. relatively mild weather prevented the ice from reaching sufficient thickness to allow these activities. Those who are my Facebook “friends” or who “like” New While others were cooped up in their houses complaining Jersey Windsurfing are well aware of all of the iceboarding about the seemingly never ending winter, Tom, our intrepid opportunities we have had this winter. An assortment of club president, together with other club members took homemade GoPro videos have also been shared using this advantage of the conditions to get out on the water (albeit of venue. the solid variety). By all accounts, a fun time was had by all. Check out the article by Tom on page 6 where he describes If you aren’t on Facebook yet, the 90’s called and have some his exploits on the ice. VCR tapes for you to watch. But really, social networking is the wave of the future. By developing a Facebook account, For those of us who really do not care for the cold, an you can proceed to “friend” or “like” as much as you want, alternative way to get our adrenaline fix is to travel to warmer while also securing access and “following” or “unfollowing” climes for a windsurfing vacation. At various times over the informative feeds. past few months, a number of our club members were fortunate enough to escape to the flat water windsurfing paradise of Bonaire (see pages 9 and 12). As discussed in Previously, The NJWWA has attempted to round up groups the articles, winds this year were really ideal for practicing for windsurfing sessions via NJWWA Forums and perfecting a variety of planing (and even non-planing) http://www.windsurfnj.org/forum/forum.htm and the Flip Flop maneuvers. This is definitely a great way for preventing the & Fly notification system. rust setting in (not to mention muscle atrophy) during the off season back in the States. http://www.windsurfnj.org/racing/racing.htm With the ice now melted on the Barnegat bay, the more hardy members of our club (i.e. Mik, Vadim, and Brian) are Maybe Facebook is the way to go? www.facebook.com. now out on the water enjoying some terrific frontal spring winds. Hopefully within the next 6-8 weeks, the water and air If we all post in advance of our next windsurfing session, will have warmed up sufficiently to tempt us less hardy maybe we’ll all meet at the water at the same time? (Safety sailors out. in numbers) These activities show there really is no off season for our sport. So next winter, when you are grumbling about the See you on the water soon weather, why don’t you think about making the most of the conditions to try wind-driven winter sports or even treat yourself to a Caribbean vacation to get some windsurfing in. 3 Our opening day windsurfing in the shallow 2014 NJWWA Schedule of water of The Flats of Barnegat Bay, near Events the old Wheelhouse Marina/ 24th Ave launch. After sailing join us for dinner (location to be determined). Graphics by: Antoni Dabrowski Tuesday May 13th: Andy Brant Evening April-May (TBD): Annual Green Up Clinic and Q&A (free). 6.00 p.m.-9.00 Clean Up day, Various shore points. p.m., Ocean Township, Oakhurst meeting room. Saturday May 3rd: ESA Stand Up Paddleboard Surf contest Margate pier, 7.00 a.m. Sunday May 4th: Extreme Windsurfing SPRING SWAP MEET at Lakes Bay. Starts at 10.00 a.m. at the shop behind the Comfort Inn. Sunday May 10th: NJWWA Spring into Windsurfing @ The Flats, S. Seaside Park. Saturday May 17th: Island Surf and Sail presents the "Stoked for Life SUP Series" to benefit Cancer Stinks. Bayview Park, LBI. Registration starts at 10.00 a.m., racing at noon. Details at: http://distressedmullet.com/events/stoke d-life-stand-paddle-series-race- 1#sthash.x3oq6i53.dpuf 4 Sunday June 8th: NJWWA Fun Fest @ Seaside Park, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. 14th Friday July 25th: (Rain date: July 26th): th Ave Pier. 5 Annual Island Surf & Sail Ladies Paddle Challenge @ Bayview Park, Brant Beach, LBI. Details at: http://www.islandsurf-sail.com/event- registrations/annual-ladies-paddle- challenge.aspx Sunday August 3rd: NJWWA Fun Fest @ Lakes Bay/Atlantic City, Extreme Windsurfing/Comfort Inn & Suites, 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m. Sunday September 14th (tentative): NJWWA Fun Fest @ Sandy Hook, Lot C, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. th Friday September 26-28 : ABK Camp Sunday July 13th: NJWWA Fun Fest @ @ Lakes Bay, Extreme Windsurfing Bayview Park, Brant Beach, LBI, 10.00 /Comfort Inn & Suites. a.m.-4.00 p.m. Saturday November 8th: Year End NJWWA GALA, Brant Beach Yacht Club, Bayview Avenue, Brant Beach, LBI. For those interested in canoe and paddle races please see: http://www.philacanoe.org/racing Our club schedule can also be viewed online at: www.Tinyurl.com/NJWWACalendar 5 Club News and Updates Update on Seaside access ABK Clinic coming to New by Brian Rauch Jersey: I went to the flats at Seaside on Saturday March 22nd. It really has changed. There are no buildings remaining, just one big parking area. The access to the water remains the same but there is only one entrance to the parking area. Some park police were there and I asked them about the status. They were just fine letting people come in, park and sail/kite. The one officer mentioned that, as long as there were no signs indicating ‘no parking,’ he was fine. He also mentioned that any changes to the status would first After a number of years bypassing the New Jersey coast, come down from the “superintendent” and as long as we windsurf instructor extraordinaire Andy Brant and the rest of didn’t “trash the place” we’d be fine. When I was, there the ABK team will be running an ABK windsurfing camp at were about 6 windsurfers and two kiters. Lakes Bay during the weekend of September 26th-28th. For those of you who need to improve your basic technique, The only caveat with Seaside is construction on Rt 35 learn new tricks or even just take a refresher course, this will heading off the causeway. They are completely tearing up be a great opportunity. Hopefully we can get a good representation of our membership enrolling. Who knows, a huge sections (sewers and gas lines it looks like) – diverting good turnout may persuade Andy to offer additional clinics in traffic to side roads and on the way home I got caught up in NJ next year. an extra 10 minutes of congestion on side streets with traffic lights on every corner, and I was there on a light traffic As a precursor to the clinic in September, Andy and NJWWA day. From the looks of the mess on 35 I don’t see this are currently finalizing the details for a free evening Q/A changing anytime soon but once you get down there the clinic May 13th (see previous page). Last year, despite being flats are in perfect shape! held during a week day, we had a very good turnout. Those who managed to attend the event last year will remember I recorded a video of a park walk-about – I just posted here: how fun and informative the evening was. Further details will http://youtu.be/9fxGTLXZvgY - if you review this you will be sent to our membership once the date and venue have see a newly constructed bulkhead, this might add quite an been finalized. additional load to the launch as many boaters start to utilize that launch.
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