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20th August 2003
Windsurfing: Jericoacoara, Brazil
Wind Direction: E
Wind Stength: 25 knots+
Surf / Sea State: Flat/swell on outside
Air Temperature: Scorchio!
Sea Temperature: Scorchio!
Weather: Mucho Sol
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Honk honk!!!! None of this relaxing sailing any more - the wind is back! It had been getting a little bit stronger every day for the past few days, and today it hooned good and proper. Initially slightly overpowered on my 5.2 rigged three-quarters flat, but then flattened it off completely for the last 15 minutes so that I was then just well well powered up. Could easily have been on my 4.6. Think the boom will be transferred back onto it tomorrow if conditions are the same, and the 5.2 will be put away for a well-earned rest.

Being slightly overpowered but still in control, it was very much an action-packed adrenaline fuelled crap yourself here we go session. Some scarily fast broad-reaching over the swells and one or two huge jumps. Pulled off a couple where you hit a nice big bit of swell and get airborne over the big trough in the swell that opens up underneath you, leaving you hanging there for a moment thinking "oh hello...I´m quite high up here..." Unfortunately no real nice straight up vertical jumps today - the waves/swell weren´t really co-operating properly for that. Gybing on the outside wasn´t happening at all being so over-powered and in the huge swell, and gybing on the inside was difficult because there were so many people on the water, but still made most of them dry that I tried, and confidently so.

A few more days like that and I´ll be a happy man. Really in the right frame of mind of mind now to really start going for stuff. I´ve even been entertaining the idea of trying a back loop, given the opportunity.... Bring it on.

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