Author: Ryan Schenk
Skateboard Sailing
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Last night, we had some decent winds from Tropical Storm Hanna, so my friend Jonathan and I used an old sailboat mast, trash bag, and some scraps of wood to build this great gaff-rigged, sail-powered skateboard. We took it to the beach and ripped around the parking lot and down the street.
Looking back at the windspeed graphs on iWindsurf.com, it was blowing 40mph and gusting to 48 at the time this was filmed!
We only got one video because it was raining like crazy and we didn’t want to get the camera wet.
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I had surgery on my ankle 14 days ago, on June 26th. Looking back at the wind speed archives, it has been windy enough to kiteboard on 10 of those 14 days, or approximately 70% of the time I’ve been laid up. I guarantee you that when I heal, we will have no wind at all.