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Playing with the Big Boys
After my collision with a 35-foot sailboat earlier this season, I decided to leave those amateurs to their own fate and embarked on exploring the deeper blues of Lake Ontario…
Love Affair with Georgian Bay
When I planned this adventure, I anticipated three distinct and challenging phases: Adrenaline Phase, Tricky Phase, and Endurance Phase. As it turned out, my trip also happened to have a fourth phase: “Survival Kiting”.
Thermal Wind Experiment
If I kited far enough into the lake, I should find the boundary where the thermal conditions weaken significantly and the wind dies off. Don’t you think?
Light Wind Domes
I would never have believed that on a day with a steady wind at 13-15kts and white caps all around, I could encounter light-wind domes where the wind dies down, whitecaps disappear, and there are just glassy ripples.
Collision With a 35-foot Sailboat
There was only one sailboat on the lake as far as I could see, and it looked like a tiny triangle on the horizon. How did we manage to collide half an hour later?
Cold Water Swimming
I have been swimming in Lake Ontario the whole winter almost daily. Sometimes it’s sunny, sometimes it’s snowing, I don’t care, I just go.
252 Kilometers, 9 Hours of Nonstop Riding
Any solo kitesurfing trip from Toronto to Port Weller and back would be considered a suicide. Well, I did it anyways.
Cold Water Swims in The Canadian Rockies
The calm and misty waters of Bow Lake, the invisible mountain vistas, and the eerie silence were absolutely magical. I put my thermometer in the water and went for a swim.
700km Solo SUP Along The Great Lakes
I bought a one way ticket from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie. After landing in the Sue, I pumped up my inflatable SUP, threw the suitcase away, and paddled back to Toronto. Mission impossible.
Foil Tack Lament
The journey of “Ten Thousand Wipeouts” is only about to begin when you decide to learn a simple maneuver called Foil Tack Transition…