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13th February 2011
Windsurfing: Pevensey Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: F5 Surf / Sea State: wavey Air Temperature: ok Sea Temperature: ok Weather: grey/spitting Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Cracking time at Pevensey, just down the road from where the lardy arse kit
breakers were. First outing for my new windsurfing charriot, which despite
its small and girl-like appearance, did the job admirably. Arrived to find
lots of very cold and uninspired locals and so I initially thought it was a
good old weekend skunking. But it felt windy and so I decided on a 5.7 to
be safe. As soon as I made that choice, a couple of boards launched upwind
of us and their sails looked much smaller, so a couple of minutes dithering
and then I carried on with the 5.7 plan. It was the perfect choice. I
rigged it flat when I first went out and braced myself for something more
nuclear, but it was pretty much ok. I came in to bag it out a notch and
then spent the rest of the morning having a ball in the onshore conditions.
The waves got much bigger as the tide dropped, but the big ones shifted
about on just about every run, so I worked out it was best to stay a way
out and then swoop on the big stuff when you spotted it. Quite fun being
able to ride them both ways, although I'm not particularly experienced in
directly onshore stuff, so there were a couple of interesting dismounts -
one of which was about half of a port tack loop, which felt a little
disturbing. Great fun, not too cold and nice to see everyone again even if
most shivered it out on the beach - well done Krafty for keeping me
company. 4 or 5 of us out at the car park, then a couple more across
towards Eastbourne and a load of kites in between - all of whom were very
smiley. We even had Carl and his mate out on Jetskis, so it was almost a
summertime population out there. Glad I made the effort.
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