During the week I was talking to my brother who lives in New Plymouth NZ and we were discussing his prospects for sailing on the w/e. He races a Paper Tiger every Saturday off the coast, and so far this season he has had one howling gale after another, or to be more exact, 25-30knots, which has been somewhat testing. A few weekends ago, they had one gust of 90km/hr recorded!
Anyway, I digress. he mentioned that their Windwand had been taken down for maintenance, so he couldn't tell from his office what the wind was doing. Windwand? I asked....what the heck is a windwand?
It's the coolest thing...I just had to share this with you all. Check this out!
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