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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
14th September 2004 Windsurfing: Hayling Island Wind Direction: SW-W Wind Stength: 20-25 knots? Surf / Sea State: Choppy/small waves on sandbar Air Temperature: 17ºC Sea Temperature: 18ºC Weather: Mostly sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Another sunny windy day zzzzz....got work to do but it would have been extremely rude not to. Adam and Tom had gone to Bigbury and everyone else was either working or away, so had to go it alone. There was swell in the channel apparently, (as well as honking gale force winds in the morning...) so it had to be somewhere wavey - W in the wind which ruled out Avon - Adam suggested Boscombe would be firing but the wind was forecast to drop in the west first so went to Hayling. (also it's closer and I know what to expect - only sailed at Boscombe once and it was full-on). Arrived around 2.15pm. Tide was higher than I expected and it looked pretty manic but pretty damn good out there. Solid 4.5 wind and some meaty looking swell pushing in. Actually turned out to be not as quite as windy as expected. 4.7 or maybe 5.0 would have been ideal - if I had one of those in my quiver. Still, nicely powered up most of the time, not too much blobbing, and another solid session. The waves weren't really shaping up at the start and it was usual Hayling mega-confused water state. Really hard work and difficult sailing. As usual when a fraction underpowered, had problems getting going when sailing back in on port. Really dunno why - must be something wrong with my technique, but can't think what. Maybe I'm trying to point too high when I can see the shore and my launch point. Felt like I was sailing uphill when coming back in and had trouble getting over the back of swells. Gybing was hard work and not very successful in the confused water state. But I enjoyed a very healthy helping of jumps, a couple with an extremely decent side portion of float. The waves became much more jumpable towards the end as the sandbar got exposed. Couldn't leave the session without trying for another forward, so on my penultimate run out, a small wave jacked up in front of me nicely, and I went for it - with about as much success than my last two attempts. Come on - TUCK UP LEGS - SHEET IN! How hard can it be damnit?!? Still, as before, it felt very good trying. Had a few efforts at riding some of the waves, but with limited joy since they were very messy and temperamental. Often after catching a wave nicely and then bottom turning, the wave would suddenly disappear. So not as good a wave-sailing session as I had hoped. Maybe Boscombe would have been better? I'll never know. Anyway, another solid session, 4.5, sunny, 3 hours on the water, can't really ask for much more. Well, some proper clean waves would be nice I suppose just maybe, and also a successful forward loop? Then it would have been a 5 star session, not just a measly 4 again. Absolutely cream-crackered now, and still in a continual state of utter disbelief about how good this summer has been. That was session number 31 since mid-June. Incredible. (PS reading this again the day after the night before - think my unsuccessful loop attempts may be partly due to not being used to jumping out of the harness. So will just try some normal un-hooked jumps next session, and practise tucking my legs up. Once I'm confident with them, I'll go for the sheeting in bit. Simple. Possibly more wind this weekend - hope so cos I'm really psyched up to go for these loops now. Oh yeah bring 'em on). |
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