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justal Administrator  Member#: 1 Location: Registered: 21-07-2002 Diary Entries: 2989 Mood: Just Chillin Dude |
7th August 2006 Windsurfing: Ynyslas Wind Direction: NW Wind Stength: 20-25 knots Surf / Sea State: choppy Air Temperature: 22ºC Sea Temperature: 17 Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Wooohooo What a session. The wind filled in from nowhere, there wasn't a could in the sky and I had a new board to play with. Well powered with my 5m and my new Naish Hybrid Freewave 86. The board is lovely, the best way to describe it would be 'playful'. Its short length means the nose is always hunting around for a piece of chop to play on and although easy to sail it is also quite a physical board to sail as you have to constantly be on the ball to keep it tracking nicely. It feels really fast off the wind, isn't great upwind but is certainly more than capable, feels nice in the air and just loves to turn. I made some really noce fully planing duck gybes and plenty of nice carve gybes too. I didn't have my GPS with me so I don't know how fast it actually was, but it certainly felt fast which is what really counts. Derek and Chris then turned up on the beach and as they launched their kites the wind droped from 25 knots to next to nothing. I sunk and all of a sudden the board became pretty difficult. It certainly isn't much fun to sail without any wind as it tends to luff up into wind really quickly and its short length makes it difficult to keep it going. When powered up it sailed through the lulls nicely, but when completely underpowered it is hard work. All in all though it feels nice and I had an excellent (and unexpected) couple of hours on the water. |
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