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Owner: IainO
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Registered: 23-02-2003
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Mood: Closer to the sea now

13th December 2003
Windsurfing: Bigbury
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Stength: F4-5
Surf / Sea State: Big
Air Temperature: 13
Sea Temperature: Cool
Weather: Rain
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Distance Covered:

Started out with a few runs to warm up. Big jumps on the outside were the waves were jacking up to 10ft. The wind was quite patchy and the rain was annoying but it was so mild it made it tolerable.

After the warm up me and 2 other decided to head out back were the wind was more solid and the waves bigger. Got caught in no wind with an absolute monster bearing down on me. The inevitable happened and I went through the rinse cycle on a long fast setting. The boom was wrenched out of my grasp at one point and I surfaced to a long swim to catch my board.

The prognosis was not good. My sail had imploded from the luff to the leech and I was half a mile off shore and 3/4 mile downwind from the launch point with some serious monsters barrelling behind me.

I started to swim with my kit only to realise that there were some nasty looking sharp rocks between me and the shore. As I got closer the waves got bigger and it was decision time as to whether to keep the rig. It took one long time pinned under by another monster only to surface momentarily, lungs bursting, to see another almost on top of me to go for the rig ditch. Managed to get washed over the rocks with no further damage and on to Bantham beach.

After a long walk back (and a swim across the river) I got back to my car only to find the others were about to call the Coast Guard out. Took a drive round to Bantham at low tide to see if I could rescue my mast and boom (a brand new boom to boot) but to no avail. It would be interesting to see if the mast survived the rocks (it's a Tushingham RDM) and lives up to the hype.

So all in all an expensive day, I'll have to see if my insurance will cough up to cover it.

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