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8th January 2005
Windsurfing: Golf Course Car park, Ynyslas
Wind Direction: W
Wind Stength: 45-20 knots
Surf / Sea State: Rough!
Air Temperature: 6ºC
Sea Temperature: 9ºC
Weather: Sunny
Max Speed: 33.4 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 37.9 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Perfection....Woooohoooo.

When I first got to the neach the wind was arounf 36-40 knots, didn't drop below 35, but did gust up to 45 at times. I thought about rigging my 3.4m but as the wind was forecast to drop went with the 4.5 instead. Needless to say when I first got on the water I was completely overpowered most of the time and just hanging on for my life. Couldn't really go for anythgin or even bear away properly as it was proper survival conditions. After about half an hour of this I did a jump off a little wave and as I did my UJ snapped leaving me in mid air with a separate board and rig!!... Kinda scary!

I went back in, changed UJ's and soon got back out there. The wind had eased off by now to around 30-35 knots and I had a couple of hours of pure perfection, lots of nice floaty jumps and some mad speed runs in between the waves. It wasn't ideal conditions for out and out speed, but with my new GPS toy I was going for it as best I could. Despite my highly rockered wave board, wave sail, the most chipped fin you've ever seen and the rough conditions I managed loads of runs over 30 knots and my fastest was 33.4 knots.. Not bad I don't think and it certainly felt fast. It must have looked fast as well as I came off the water at one point as Will was setting up his kite and his first comment was on how fast I was going!.. Larry said the same a little later too. So, unless we get some perfect flat water speed sailing and I use a faster board I can see that 33.4 knots is going to take some beating for me.

I got back on the water as Will went out with his 6m kite, but the wibnd had eased off a bit by now so the speeds dropped off but it was still good blasting up and down in amongst the whitewater, still clocked up 30.5 knots even with the wind easing a bit.

Chris then turned up and pumped his kite up, but by the time he got on the water, the wind had eased off loads and I was having trouble getting going with my 4.5m sail. I came in and measured the wind and sure enough it was now only around 20 knots. I couldn't be bothered to rig any bigger kit as I had already had almost 4 hours on the water anyway... What a day.

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