Windsurfing... the blind leading the blind

I've gone windsurfing at Foster City Lagoon a grand total of 3 times. It is a very inexpensive and safe way to get up and running, er... sailboarding. And once you take their intro class, you can do an all day rental of rig and suit for $20. They're open all year. It's a location with conditions which are about as non-threatening to a newbie as possible. All of which means that you can go practice quite a bit.

But I haven't yet, mostly because it involves getting babysitting which is a lot more than $20, and carving out time. This did not stop me from writing up a Basic Windsurfing Tutorial. On the contrary, I wanted to write it up while I was still a complete sailboarding moron.

First off, I wrote the tutorial mainly for me. My mnemonic ability has taken a beating these last few years. With a few weeks' interval between outings I wind up staring vacantly at the rental board for a few minutes before I can recall what I'm supposed to do. If I write it down I have both the memory enhancement of writing it down along with the ability to re-read it when I need it.

Second, it's so hard to remember what it's like to be new at something, that if I waited until I knew what I was talking about I would no longer remember what were the key ideas I kept forgetting when new.

So anyway, if you're a sailboarder and you somehow ended up here looking at my anemic blog (I'm sorry for you, really I am) I would love it if you would take a gander at the tutorial. Please let me know if I screwed up anything major.