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Owner: griptool
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Wipeout of the Year Award 2004

Member#: 239
Location: on the nest
Registered: 03-06-2003
Diary Entries: 19

Mood: Gripped

20th March 2004
Windsurfing: Poole harbour
Wind Direction: WSW
Wind Stength: f7-9
Surf / Sea State: Choppy
Air Temperature: 11c
Sea Temperature: Not bad
Weather: overcast
Max Speed:
Distance Covered:

I was woken by the noise of the wind at 6.30 this morning (joy) so it was an early start.

Arrived at Poole at 9.30 the wind had arrived as promised (double joy).

Rigged up my 4.2 Rock and was punished for 3 and a half hours, the wind was very gusty I found the best way was to pick your moment to start and get secure before a big gust, if I managed to get hooked in and into the straps before being wiped out it was controllable, towards the end of the session things seem to be coming together. Packed up when cramp set in.

Hats off to Tushingham, the sail was tested by multiple catapult and came out unscratched

Would have given 5 stars if it was sunny and I claimed those gybes’.

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