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2009 CCWA Swap Meet big success
May 2 - CCWA's third annual
Water Sports Swap Meet drew sellers and buyers to the old
Coliseum parking lot.
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Windy forecast for Corpus this week
April 25 - After a week of wind, the National Weather Service is predicting five more days of high winds for Corpus
NWS CORPUS FORCAST
Oleander Point King of the Bay Fleet Rally
April 4 - The King of the Bay
brought windsurfers and kiteboarders together for a GPS event and
fleet rally at Oleander Point.
Wind sports enthusiasts and spectators gathered at Oleander Point
on April 4 to celebrate the city's recently completed improvements
to the park paid
for by Bond
2004, including new palm trees, grassy drainage swale to prevent
shoreline erosion, and a concrete slab and water supply for
washing down gear. The festivities included a
fleet rally with windsurfers and kiterboarders sailing together.
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PHOTOS OF FLEET RALLY AWARDS
Oleander Point bond improvements complete
Jan 11, 2009 - drainage swale is completed
Feb 11, 2009 - concrete rinse station slab with plumbing stubbed up
Feb 11, 2009 - one of a dozen or
more new palm trees being planted
Improvements
funded by Bond 2004 began in October 2008 at Oleander Point, one
of Corpus Christi's most popular windsurf launches. A wide
sloping drainage swale was constructed near the north end of
the park where, before, there was a steep drop-off. The
re-graded area was planted with sod to help alleviate
erosion. Other improvements to
Oleander Point under the bond project are a rinse or
wash down station located just uphill of the drainage swale.
The rinse station consists of a 15-foot-by-15-foot concrete slab and a knee-high water faucet with spray nozzle
intended as a location for wind sports enthusiasts to rinse off
their gear. The final touches were about 20 palm trees and a sign describing the wind sports activities
practiced at the park. The sign is still under construction. CCWA's former Commodore and new
Oleander
Launch Advocate, Joe Lynch, has been the City's contact for
the windsurfing community over the past two years.
MORE ABOUT OLEANDER POINT LAUNCH
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2009 US Wind & Water Open
Organizer pulls out but
competitions held anyway
Epic Sports & Entertainment pulled out of the 2009
US Wind & Water Open kiteboarding and windsurfing event but windsurfing and kiteboarding
competitions were held, led by local sailors and kiters with the help
of the CC Yacht Club.
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CCWA joins US Windsurfing
The CCWA recently became a
US
Windsurfing affiliated organization. The 2009 CCWA
Board of Directors, putting more emphasis
on competitive windsurfing, decided that supporting this national
organization was an important step in supporting the sport as a
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NEW: CC Bay Platform
Weather Kiosk
This new weather website for Corpus
Christi Bay provides graphic
representations of air temperature, wind speed, wind direction and barometric pressure for the past
24 hours, taken from a platform located two miles off Cole Park
in the middle of the bay. The kiosk is sponsored by the Division of Nearshore
Research.
DNR CC BAY KIOSK
DNR CC BAY STATION OVERVIEW |
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