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justal Administrator  Member#: 1 Location: Registered: 21-07-2002 Diary Entries: 2989 Mood: Just Chillin Dude |
29th November 2003 Windsurfing: Ynyslas Estuary Wind Direction: SSE Wind Stength: 30-50 knots Surf / Sea State: Choppy Air Temperature: 10ºC Sea Temperature: 11ºC Weather: Rain Max Speed: Distance Covered: Mayhem!!! Complete mayhem!! :) I started off with my 5m Tomahawk sail and Hifly, expecting a mad speed session, but on the first run I soon worked out that 5m was WAY too big, so quickly came back in and changed down to a very flatly rigged 4.5m and my wave board. if I had a 400cm mast I would have rigged my 3.4m Once again, back into the fray. I was still maxed out and at times completely and utterly overpowered, but it was fun. Each run had a variety of conditions, from nicely powered up flat water in the bay, to massive chop and massively overpowered when I was in line with the Leri, to completely maxed out stupidly fast flat water conditions once the other side of the Leri.... First it was get going in the flat water and build up to speed, before heading upwind over the chop with a few nice chop hops in front of the Leri, then time to scare myself.... The mad speed runs over not particularly well known waters (and therefore unknown sandbanks) were REALLY scary. At times I went much faster than I've ever been before (except maybe for the one time I had a go on a Sputnik). I would just bear away as the water flattened off and go for it until I reached maximum speed, at which point there was very little I could do except hang on. Even slowing down again was a problem and it took all my strength to carve the board upwind to slow myself down. I did go for the odd crazy gybe at that speed, but with little success. Then it would be back the other way at maximum speed before slowing down a bit for the choppy bit. I did hit the chop at full speed at one point, but just went bouncing off all over the place out of control with spray flying in all directions until a rail caught and that was the end of that run!! Going back this way I was able to carve around on some of the bigger bits of chop, before hitting the flat water in the bay and heading upwind to where I started from... Perfect. The wind was just crazy though, and although most of the time I was able to just about hang on, there were some really viscous gusts that would just come out of nowhere. Some would just completely flatten me, literally slamming the rig down on my head, but if that wasn't scary enough, the gusts that decided to lift you out the water were worse. On a number of occasions I was happily blasting along gritting my teeth, when a huge gust would hit with ridiculous force and just lift me and my kit out of the water, one in particular must have lifted me about 10 feet in the air and carried me quite a way downwind. There was just nothing I could do about it, the wind literally picked me up!! What a mad session.. Where was everybody else?? |
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