Site Designed, Produced and Maintained by
Pixelwave Design.
|
|
| ||||||
| Member Details | Session Description |
Toys Used |
| Owner:
krafty Member  Member#: 3052 Location: Registered: 28-11-2006 Diary Entries: 467 Mood: waiting for wind |
19th May 2006 Windsurfing: Camber Sands - Little Maui Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: 70mph gusts reported by BBC Surf / Sea State: Mast high kack ya pants massiv Air Temperature: ok Sea Temperature: ok Weather: f o WINDY !! Max Speed: Distance Covered: I dunno ... loads of work to do, re-scheduling stuff ... but still managed to sort it and sneak off early and i convinced gutted to make the trip over to camber, on the premise that if it was too nuclear we could alway try the lake at rye so we at least got a sail (gutted had suggested a ressie session at Bewl but i didn't fancy that, it tastes different ) We checked out Jurys as tide was starting to come up, got the windy's out and it registered 'fu*k off windy' on the gutted windy meter ... the lake was looking favourite. The sea was white water on the inside, but looked better further out, as well as a touch windier. It seemed everyone was on 4.0m or smaller .... my smallest sail being 4.2m & gutted had a huge 4.5m as his storm sail ... Time for a trip up to the dunes to see if little maui was any more sheltered and inviting ... recce with the windy meters, the 'gutted meter' joined by the 'krafty windy' ... now both indicated 'fu*k off windy' ... gusting 40 knots, steady (ish) 28-35 knots ....concensus was 3.7-4.2m so it was a simple choice of rigging the smallest kit we had and developing the biggest balls we could poste haste gutted will recount his own session, but he had a good one judging by the smiles (and from what i saw of him ) ... my session would always be an 'L' plate session as I was using a sail i'd never rigged before and a board that I've only stood on once before, in conditions that suggested I'd be well advised to put another couple of quid in the RNLI pot .... cue the hike over the dunes with my 4.2m Combat & Pocket Wave 78, the walk upwind (do it early rather than when cream crackered) to launch, plus the rip is less noticeable further upwind due to the river (local advice, cheers) ... breather first ... then go ... and quick U turn to adjust set up, harnesss lines too far forward, footstraps too big ... then go again For some reason, I decided to head right out the back on one run, and as much as everywhere is best based upon reputation etc etc, this was the first time I'd ventured out the back of anywhere mast high (I was using a 370 mast mind ) ... obviously overcome by the occassion, dropped the gybe, but the space between waves gave me much more time than i envisaged preparing myself for a pounding ... sort rig, fly it, waterstart and sail back in ... ride waves .. not on this run, i could see terra firma and I required a foot plant and .. breathe .. and go again I didn't do much of any note, other than sail in stuff beyond my limits and return to base without any damage or incident .... got a couple of jumps which seemed pretty high to me but refused to try anything as it was windy up in the air, but after just the second go on my Pocket Wave 78 ever, I think we might just become good mates, given the opportunities to develop the relationship . Loads of people there, and nice to see all the hardcore kiters were either knitting or windsurfing ... Rich C took my set up out for a ride and seemed to like it a little too much for my liking ... I sense an offer to p/x his JP for my PW78 in the offing ... surely not Good buch of people down at Camber and some very very good windsurfers amongst them ... big back loops, massive forwards, very high table tops ... and some daft sod trying to earn some stripes in conditions a little beyond his ability ... errr ... that'll have been me then Interesting range of boards ripping out there, best had to be the BiC Techno 283 which was going really well ... but then on closer inspection it was pretty obvious that this was Jamie Hawkins old Kbay custom sprayed up for that famous 'techno' pic in the mags, pure class ... Anyway, it was(nt) sunny, was(nt) windy, was(nt) fun and there is no point in anyone considering swapping Shoreham etc for Camber, it just is(nt) worth the trip, especially (not) as a decent south coast high tide nuking wave sailing coastal venue Happy days .. warmed up a treat for tomorrow now ... slightly nervous that BBC gave 23mph for today and show 25mph for tomorrow ... that would translate to 32-38 knots at the beach perhaps edit ... the geriatric loopy fella was at it again , and is starting to go for doubles now ... ... that'll put all us junior to Stu Ord-Hume to shame .. so that'll be pretty much all of us, bar grumpf I guess |
Toys Used:
Statsbar:
| |||||||
  |
|
|
|||||||
|
Web Design in Wales, UK by 
Pixelwave Design.
© Alan R Cole 2000...