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11th March 2003
Windsurfing: Golf Course Car Park, Borth
Wind Direction: WSW
Wind Stength: 16 knots
Surf / Sea State: 4-6 foot messy surf
Air Temperature: 9C
Sea Temperature: 8C
Weather: Overcast
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Wooohooo, What a session, I think I'm getting better at this windsurfing game!! :)

When I got to the beach I thought there was only just going to be a enough wind and rigged my 5.7m sail and big 100 litre board... Which considering the size of the surf was a little worrying. The winds were cross-onshore and once I got on the water I was perfectly powered up the whole time. Never underpowered and never overpowered...Perfect. I sailed straight out through the surf, but had to bear away quite a bit now and then to avoid some big waves and also because there was so much foam that I couldn't put pressure on the fin and head upwind until I was a 100 yds or so from the beach. I could feel the fin trying to spin out the whole time as the foam meant there was actually more air than water.

The surf was a solid 4-6 foot with some massive rogue waves out the back. There were regualrly waves with 10 foot faces and the occasional one even bigger. I was surprised that I coped so well with these waves, but after a while I became pretty comfortable in the lumpy surroundings and started looking for the biggest waves to launch into massive jumps!!.

I made some of my biggest ever jumps, and seemed perfectly in control the whole time. Its such a good feeling to be 10 foot in the air, with your board tucked up under you, spotting your landing, making it and just sailing away without losing any speed...Fantastic!!!

My slalom sailing session in the estuary seemed to pay off as well, as I made every single gybe and came out fully planing on all but one or two of them. Some of the gybes out the back on the face of the wave were just so fast that I couldn't quite believe I'd done it! Even under pressure with a big wall of white water chasing me I still cooly and calmly made my gybes... I think I like it when I'm sailing this well.

The wave riding was good too, I stayed out the back quite a bit of the time but there were still big swells out there both to jump off and ride on the way back in. Quite a few times I dropped down the face of a big wave, made a few turns on the wave just as it was breaking, then flew downwind into a fully planing gybe, straight into the straps on the other side and was still planing enough to launch into a big jump off the wave I'd just been riding.

What a perfect session. No one else out, but being surrounded by big swells all the time probably meant I wouldn't have seen anyone even if there had been. I need more sessions like that.

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