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Tim Member  Member#: 238 Location: Registered: 01-06-2003 Diary Entries: 343 Mood: Not enough time to do it all. |
11th March 2005 Windsurfing: Brog Wind Direction: WNW Wind Stength: F4 to 6 Surf / Sea State: Flat to 1' Air Temperature: 8 Sea Temperature: 4 Weather: Cloudy Max Speed: Distance Covered: Just got myself a Kombat off Tony for £700. I'm pleased. It goes well. I wanted a big wave x-over for better lake days and occasional coastal trips as a big board. I put the small fin in as I didn’t need anything bigger. To start I went out on the Axxis. I was fine, but the water was freezing and I got the finger hots BIIIIIGGGG time. I gybed OK most of the time. It was not that gusty, not as much as I thought it might be. The kid from Grafham was there. VW camper parked up. Then the wind picked up and the 6.3 got to much of a handful, and Tony’d arrived so I went for a cuppa and get my new toy. I rigged the 4.7, and after a few runs got the hang of it OK. Then gibing got easy and I hardly fell in unless I went for a chop hop or something out the envelope. Phil turned up, he needed a lot of coaxing to get out and was on go-slow – you know - fart ar/ound for long enough and you might miss the wind “oh dear how sad – never mind”. Anyway he had a crap time on his “S-type” and ended up down the winless corner for hours. I think he must have got mild hypothermia as he was swimming a lot. Poor guy. The Kombat is delicate to gybe, not like the F2 or a Starboard Carve where it matter not how hard you push it wont gybe any less. The Kombat needs coaxing round – maybe it was me – I don’t know. Good days sailing. Saw John Hibberd’s slide show with Roger from Tushingham. It was a good account of how great the sailing is in Western Australia. Recommended. The quiz was good too. Dave Skye team and his won – b*****stard. |
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