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hamptonw Member Member#: 7315 Location: Registered: 22-01-2008 Diary Entries: 61 |
19th July 2009 Windsurfing: Camber Sands Wind Direction: W'ly Wind Stength: F3-4 Surf / Sea State: BIG waves Air Temperature: 18 Sea Temperature: 14 Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Well Saturday didn't quite pan out as planned for me... After a very early start (up at 4.15am and away just before 5am), Grawp and I headed down to Camber in the early morning light expecting to be confronted with 20+ Knots of wind and a few playful waves up near the harbour end of the beach. What we found however was light and super gusty wind, and absolutely MAHOOSIVE waves breaking about half a mile out to sea. We rigged up 4.7's anyhow as on the outside it looked considerably windier with white caps abounding. Ed headed out to do battle, and I tentatively followed (having learned my lesson at Camber a couple of weeks ago with that nasty scary swim home in waves a third of this size). After a couple of half hearted attempts to get out in almost no wind and lots of seething whitewater, not to mention a strong longshore rip, I came back in to the beach knowing that today was not my day at Camber. I watched Grawp get a good way out, gybe and then catch a sweet wave back in (albeit quite a way downwind of our start point - pretty unavoidable really). I spectated for w a while and eventually Ed came in and we both decided this wasn't really working for us. So we sat around for a while chatting and watching the big stuff roll in from a vantage point up on the dunes. It was both spectacular and a chilling to watch the monsters breaking out the back. After my recent experiences, it sent shivers down my spine to think what the swim back in would be like if you got separated from your kit or had a breakage out there... Anyway, we then de-rigged and went for a fry-up in the caf. We then started heading home, but on passing Rye Watersports we noticed that the water was looking black and ruffled, and that the flags were blowing furiously. Hmm.. had the wind picked up?? We pulled in an had a look. It seemed like it was pretty blowy in the gusts, so after a bit of umming and ahhing, we coughed up a £10 each and went for a second session. We though this would be an easy chilled out little sail. What it turned out to be was stupidly gusty and very frustrating. One minute I was totally overpowered on a 6.5, the next it was utterly windless and impossible to even waterstart. But I guess at least we got a sail for a couple of hours. Westerlies really are not nice at RWS... So not what I'd hoped for this weekend, and I didn't manage to get my new FSW wet. Maybe next weekend.... |
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