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Owner: Bananaman
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Registered: 26-01-2004
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Mood: Re-invigorated
29th August 2004
Windsurfing: Queen Mary Reservoir
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Stength: 15-23mph
Surf / Sea State: Choppish
Air Temperature: Cool
Sea Temperature: Nice
Weather: Cloud, Squalls, Rain, Bit of sun
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Distance Covered:

Well what an afternoon. Been waiting for a day like today for ages. Got down the club about 3pm. Rigged up, but as rigging got hit by a squall and got soaked and my board got some BIG AIR lol. Luckily it wasn't damaged. Though when checking it I noticed a small ding on the underneath. So, with the help of the shop there, I got an 'Aquapatch' and repaired it. Its like a stick on bit of fibre glass that dries in about 20 mins so that was cool. Anyway wasn't sure whether to rig the 6.2 or 8.0 today. A lot of people were out on smaller sails but I thought 'I wanna blast' so rigged the 8.0.

Well what can I say, spent 60% of the 3 hours I was there planing and it was awesome. The only thing is I had two nasty experiences. The first when I was uphauling in the middle of the reservoir and a bit of chop hit me and I fell backwards off the board the sail coming down on top of me, but as I fell my harness got hooked in lol so there I was, drowning underneath the sail with no air lol. Managed to unhook underwater and swim to the edge of the sail but seemed to take aggges. Shook me up a bit and I had to have a beer to recover as I was 'winded'. After that I didn't use the harness much but was planing without it cause I lost my balls, which undoubtably led to my second horrid experience. Basically I was planing standing right near the back of the board, knees bent u know just really accelerating when, dammit, I got overpowered and fell off the back of the board. So there I was in the water and my kit was like 20 metres away 'downwind' LOL. And I didn't have my bouyancy aid on either so shit my pants a bit. Managed to eventually get the kit back though but was knackered (i'm not a great swimmer lol).

Anyway, think I learnt a lot from todays session. I reckon safety is no.1 and I should get myself one of these cool looking bouyancy aid/impact vests. 2nd is that I should have kept using the harness and not bottled it. I feel like I've gone up a level today with the blasting though :p
Toys Used:
Bic Techno 283 150 litre
Naish Noa III 8.0

 

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