Sailing And The Wolfe Island Wind Project - Kingston , Ontario waterfront

A place for notes on the effect of the Wolfe Island Wind Project on sailing in Kingston

From the perspective of sailboat racing...

Here prevailing" means South, SW, and West breezes.

These things seem immediately evident:

The sprinkling of highly visible and reliable wind indicators all over Wolfe Island will forever change the tactics of sailboat racing in Kingston Harbour.
We'll be able to watch the seabreeze setting up, and shutting down, and diurnal evening breezes shutting down, because the general velocity and direction of near-upper air flow will be completely obvious.
The synoptic flow will be obvious, and interesting seabreeze battles should be visible.
Turbulating and impeding prevailing-direction flow over Wolfe Island generally implies a veer, a progressive Starboard tack lift, while nearing Wolfe Island in Kingston Harbour in prevailing breeze. Therefore, if anything, this will tend to reduce the "Go Left" imperative, at least somewhat. Plain and simple: velocity and direction aside, the turbulation just fuddles the left side somewhat, making it less attractive, and from a regatta-quality-in-prevailing-winds-perspective, that could be a Good Thing.
Wind in the championship circles, Bravo and Foxtrot, won't be affected at all
The Bateau Channel, which usually pays, gets a bias downgrade in prevailing conditons, which may balance route selection in distance races.
Other thoughts?

From the perspective tourism and/or Kingston's reputation for good winds

The visibility of this wind farm from the Kingston waterfront and in the media can only enhance Kingston's reputation for good winds. This alone may result in an increased interest in sailing in the Kingston area.

From the perspective of kiteboarding in Brown's Bay...

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These photos are from information displays at the March 28 2007 Wolfe Island Wind Project open house. This would be a layman's powerpoint slide of the envelope of disrupted airflow over Wolfe Island.