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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
29th August 2004 Windsurfing: Lepe Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: A fair breeze... Surf / Sea State: Flat/chop Air Temperature: 19ºC Sea Temperature: 18ºC Weather: Overcast then sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Windy windy windy!!!! Yet another summer 4.5 day - damn. Lepe delivered the goods, windier here again than at other nearby locations. Apparently Adam was on a 5.3 at the Christchurch freewave event, and he weighs less than me. Turned up around 2pm and met up with Gwyn, both of us nursing a hangover from his party the night before. Was hoping Jo would come with Gwyn but she bottled it, coming up with several lame excuses, moaning about her hangover as well. To be fair it would have been too windy for her anyway. Hangover soon disappeared as we tucked into some delicious constant 4.5 wind. Bumped into Bob on the water as well (not literally...) who had come down by himself, so was good to meet up and sail with him. Had a great 3+ hours loving the solid wind, well powered up for 90% of the time. Wish I'd brought the Quatro - didn't think it would be windy enough for it - but still the Bee was pretty good. Again didn't feel I was sailing as well as I should be though. Will blame that on the hangover. Some nice gybes, several crap ones. Lots of ducky attempts but none successful - very frustrating. Thought I would warm up to trying some aerial gybes by practising my slams first on the outside. They went sort of OK, and did pull off one clew-first waterstart, but think I need some slightly less manic wind and my bigger board to practise them properly. After coming in for an ice-cream we decided to blast upwind to a flatter-water area for easier trick practising. Gwyn and Bob steamed upwind no problem (they were on slightly bigger kit), but the wind had eased a fraction and I was a touch underpowered. Still made it upwind a fair way, but by now the water was getting very choppy everywhere so there was no real point in staying up here. So just popped the board into 5th gear and hooned it back downwind to our launch point - woohoo!!! By 6pm-ish we were the only people left out on the water. T'was getting mucho lumpy now so very hard work. But the sun came out at the end, and it was one of those sessions where you just didn't want to stop, despite being cream-crackered and hence dropping gybes a plenty. Eventually gave up around 6.15pm, staggered back up to the car park with kit (long walk t'was low tide).....and collapsed. Great day. |
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