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Member#: 261 Location: Registered: 28-06-2003 Diary Entries: 23
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14th August 2003
Windsurfing: Golf Course Car Park, Borth Wind Direction: NW Wind Stength: 18-20 knots Surf / Sea State: Flat Air Temperature: 17ºC Sea Temperature: 17ºC Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered:
What a perfect session. I got to the beach at around 3pm and found the
expected wind blowing, glorious sunshine and loads of people on the
beach.
I quickly rigged my 5.7m and Fanatic Cross and got out there. I was well
powered up the whole time and going off on long runs out to sea, with a few
little chop hops here and there, but mainly just flat water blasting across
the warm, green waters.
Gybing was fun too. On the inside there were always several groups of
bikini clads girls to use as gybe markers. I scared a few of them and
sprayed a few with water as I went by, but they seemed to enjoy it! A
couple of particularly fine specimens came to chat to me at one point
whilst I was stopped in the shallows.
After the chat I went blasting off promising to use them as my gybe marker,
and showing off a little popped a nice jump off one of the small waves. I
though I felt a little weird as I landed, but carried on regardless. A few
hundred yards out, I was just beginning to think to myself what a good
session this was and that it would get 5 stars, when my boom started
feeling a little wobbly, and then just as I was looking around to see what
was wrong, BOOM... it snapped in big style and dropped me into the water.
It had snapped at both ends and there was no chance of sailing back, so I
started a massive swim back to shore which took me ages. I was quite a way
out when it happened and had to swim all the way back in dragging my kit
behind me. Luckily Ben (who was out kite-surfing) saw me swimming back in
so knew that I was out there. I just hope the bikini girls didn't miss me
and phone the coastguard!!!
I made it back in the end, and although the wind was still blowing and I
have a spare boom, I packed up anyway. Ben had packed up and gone home by
now too, and Miguel was just going out for a kite-surf.
Could have been 5-stars but for the broken boom.
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