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Harry
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Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418
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8th August 2003
Windsurfing: Jericoacoara, Brazil Wind Direction: SE Wind Stength: 25-30 knots+ Surf / Sea State: Small waves/swell on outside Air Temperature: Scorchio! Sea Temperature: Scorhio! Weather: Mucho Sol Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Day off today so was hoping for a solid long session and oh yes the
conditions delivered. Maxed on my 4.6, at times wishing I was on something
smaller, but fine for most of the time. High tide so launching was a
problem. Decided to try walking round to the point with my kit and
launching from there straight into where it is windy, instead of
swimming/drifting out over the rocks as normal. But walking round was if
anything more effort than swimming/drifting, and I cut my foot on the rocks
in the water there so won´t be doing that again.
Went out first at about 12.30pm but despite good conditions I was sailing
crap and not making any gybes. Came at 2pm after struggling over the rocks
again (grrrr....high tide....) to tend to the cut in my foot and eat
another banana and then some yummy coconut cake from banana lady. After
half-an-hour break went out again, this time without cutting myself on the
rocks or making the existing wound any worse. Was sailing crap again at the
start but things gradually got better, and towards the end I was getting
round my gybes fairly consistently on the inside and even made one very
wobbly but dry one in the huge swell on the outside. I´m really committing
to the gybes a lot more now and they´re feeling much better, so hopefully
it´s only a matter of time before a 5 star fully planing effort is
achieved. In addition to my improved gybing at the end I became a lot more
comfortable and confident with my sailing generally compared with earlier
on, and the jumps started to come with a couple of whoppers being pulled
out of the bag.
Was out on the water for over 4 hours in total, so now I´m an extremely
cream-crackered but happy bunny.
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