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Owner: ajdesq
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Registered: 24-07-2002
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4th April 2003
Windsurfing: Tarifa - Las Dunas
Wind Direction: NE
Wind Stength: 10-30kts!
Surf / Sea State: Lumpy
Air Temperature: 19
Sea Temperature: 14
Weather: Sol!
Max Speed:
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As I was rigging up, it was generally 5.4 weather but the gusts were nuclear... A spanish guy I spoke to said it was EXTREMELY up & down, but due to increase.

So I rigged up the 5.4, thinking that avid readers may think I posess no other sails... The first foray into the water was, again, completely overpowered & messy. Coming back, I couldn¥t even get on the plane! Going out again, nicely powered-up thank you, then coming back SHOOTING over the backs of the waves and suddenly ¥something¥happened and had the most horrendous crash. I was so glad to be wearing a lid. Once I¥d surfaced, something felt very wrong, and bobbing a few yards away was my 9 month old harness, the attachments completely shot to pieces. Hooked it under a footstrap & limped back to shore, forarms throbbing & getting whipped over the bars a few times. Took out my old seat harness (not used a seat in over a year!) and rigged up a 4.7 . Not used these 2nd hand sails before either. Meanwhile, a german guy was coming in with a 4.5, saying it was just no fun out there - nothing or nuclear. As for me, I don¥t know whether it was the fact I¥d gone back to a seat, the sail, or the wind, but the only word I can think of to describe the whole under/over experience is ¥shite!¥. Not good.

For the record, the harness that broke is a Maui Magic Vision waist harness. It¥s in for repairs now, but if I was earning a wage I¥d chuck it and get a decent one, it¥s let me down a few times with its weak attachment bits.

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