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justal Administrator  Member#: 1 Location: Registered: 21-07-2002 Diary Entries: 2990 Mood: Just Chillin Dude |
13th May 2003 Windsurfing: Golf Course Car Park, Borth Wind Direction: W Wind Stength: 20-30 knots Surf / Sea State: 3-4 foot messy surf Air Temperature: 8C Sea Temperature: 11C Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: What a session!!!! My van had acquired two punctures last night, so I had to sort that out first, which meant using Anna's car to drive around town looking for suitable replacements and therefore giving Anna a lift in to work first thing. This obviously gave me a good excuse for not going to work at 8am as usual. Anyway, I had it all sorted by 10am and thought it seemed silly to waste the opportunity of a windsurf session so off I went. The wind was around 18 knots when I started rigging, but was at 20 knots by the time I got on the water and dead onshore. As it was always going to be a short session, I decided to rig big (99 ltr board 5.7m sail) to make sure I was nicely powered up and able to get out through the biggish surf in the onshore winds. In the end, I was completely maxed out on the 5.7m and would probably have been better off on my wave board with a 5m. It was still an excellent session though as I had pelnty of power to blast upwind and out through the surf, before bearing away onto mad reaches parallel to the shore. After a couple of runs in and out through the surf I decided to sail off towards Borth and sailed right down to the Lifeboat Station (about 3 miles away) and back. It was brilliant, absolutely flying along amongst head high swells and white caps!. I then played around in the waves again for a bit until I got smacked in the face by a monster out the back. I managed to hang on after getting smacked by it, but just as I recovered my bearing and was about to laugh at myself as it was quite a whack it gave me, the same wave had another shot at me and this time hit me broadside, held on to me and washed me around for a while then spat me out on the beach!!! It was quite a rinsing, but also strangely quite enjoyable too. I sailed around for a bit more after that, but the wind had picked up even more now and hanging on was beginning to get a little difficult... Probably a good thing really as it was time I went off and earnt some money. When I checked the wind strength back on the beach it was around 28 knots with gusts to 34 knots.... No wonder I was beginning to get overpowered! |
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