Was blowing about 13 when I took to the air. Bailed south quite low but by working bits of the rotor and keeping flat and slow I was able to work up to 630.

Fred starting to set up with John Lord's help.

Looking over the back. Wasn't getting very high.

Nice to get out into the sunshine after so many weeks of fog. Notice the complete lack of whitecaps.

Hanging out at about 320 feet watching Fred set up.

Getter lower down south. After fussing around with the camera at one point I went from 550 to 420 and then never could work back up higher.

John Blacet breaking down.

Timothy got in some great soaring in the light air. I was impressed with how little he needed in order to stay up. You can see Fred scratching away at launch. But it never completely quit. When I left at 5:15 it was still blowing a very smooth 12 mph.

My new best friend. I've got 2 bags for it now and been experimenting with carrying it around as two gliders. The one D-cell with the keel and the control frame weighs 49 lbs in the bag. The other lone D-cell weighs 37 lbs.