{"id":40,"date":"2026-07-15T05:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:17","slug":"gusty-but-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/gusty-but-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Gusty but good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had another great afternoon just off the Hook. Was on my 4.5 and it was VERY gusty. One run I wouldn&#8217;t even get up on the foil. The next run I could barely hang on to the wing! I really do need to get a new leash though. Today was like yesterday, when there&#8217;s a gust I can get up and on the foil within seconds (on a port tack). And thanks to the gusts and everything else I was able to make several more runs on a starboard tack. I&#8217;m still not feeling totally in control on the starboard tack but it&#8217;s getting much, much better. I seriously didn&#8217;t want to leave but knew that it was the &#8216;adult&#8217; thing to do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9d6e1b7b-6b66-4381-b764-0b5c120e8b39-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had another great afternoon just off the Hook. Was on my 4.5 and it was VERY gusty. One run I wouldn&#8217;t even get up on the foil. The next run I could barely hang on to the wing! I really do need to get a new leash though. Today was like yesterday, when there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamwindpowered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}