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AndyW Member  Walk Of Shame Award 2003 & 2004  Member#: 168 Location: Registered: 10-03-2003 Diary Entries: 191 |
16th March 2004 Windsurfing: Ynyslas Estuary Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 14-17 knots Surf / Sea State: flat Air Temperature: 12ºC Sea Temperature: 9 Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: I arrived at Borth and headed over to the golf course car park to take a look. It looked ok but I decided to go to the estuary. The wind was marginal and I'd be out on my own and besides that my insurance claim is still going through for my 6.4m from the last outing so I didn't want to trash my replacement, not yet anyway! Over at the estuary the wind was making it through albeit a bit gusty but when I arrived it was still F4-5. I walked down to see what it was like in the main channel over towards Aberdovey and the wind seemed cleaner. So I rigged up with my 6.4m and headed down the channel towards the main channel. It took a while as the channel was quite narrow as the tide was quite low. When I got to the main channel the wind appeared to have dropped off so I just made the one reach out and back as I didn't want to get starnded down wind in Aberdovey. It took quite some time to get back over to the Ynyslas side of the estuary but eventually I made it and changed to my 7.5m. Missed Al, he'd left a note on the car saying he was going out on the front. Now I was planing fully powered up with the 7.5m so I could start the gybe practise that I'd been aiming to do. Todays aim was to make sure I moved my back hand further down the boom and sheeted in to accelerate into the turn as I banked the baord. It worked well and the carve was faster than I'd managed before. However, this made me late flipping the rig! Some of my attempts also turned into laydowns which also ended up with a dunking. Good practise though, I really felt that I made some progress. Back to re-reading the articles :-) |
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