Florida Ridge - Day Four

Day 4 of the nationals was blown out, but that didn’t keep some of us pilots from flying. About a dozen pilots headed to the dunes on the east coast. Bo brought along a larger Spectrum that he graciously let everyone fly. I got some pictures of Conrad flying before we headed down the beach so we could man-tow Bo up for some condo soaring. It looked like Bo was having a good time, but since the beach in front of the condos was shrinking and other people wanted to fly, Bo flew the glider to the south were there were less people. I had a very short soaring flight, but I did get the use a cocoon harness for the first time and had my first man-tow. Conrad, Curt, Dustin, and Jeff had nice long flights and many others had shorter tows and flights. Dustin wanted to soar some condos, so after everyone else was done, he headed further south to hook up with another glider we spotted in the air. The rest of us let Dustin play while we grabbed some lunch/dinner. Dustin was still in the air when I left and Conrad was going back to sneak in one more flight.

We drove back long huge sugar cane fields and soaked up a beautiful sunset. It is supposed to be breezy tomorrow, but maybe we will get in a task.