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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
29th August 2003 Windsurfing: Jericoacoara, Brazil Wind Direction: E Wind Stength: 25-30 knots+ Surf / Sea State: Flat/small waves, swell on out Air Temperature: Scorchio! Sea Temperature: Scorchio! Weather: Mucho Sol Max Speed: Distance Covered: Day off. Got in a marathon 4+ hours on the water, and am feeling the effects of it now.... Very tired but happy. Went out first at 11.30am. Weather was initially a bit overcast and wind not so strong. Sun came out properly after about an hour and with it the wind, and then I was nicely powered up on my 4.6. Water was quite flat initially so not very exciting, but it definitely made turning round a lot easier. Made a lot of nice tacks on the inside, as well as a few gybes and some successful slam gybes on the outside. Definitely the majority of my transitions were good, so was quite chuffed with my performance. My tacking in particular improved a lot, as I gradually worked out the best way to do it whilst out there, and am now quite confident with tacking a small board (in this case the Axxis), on the inside at least. Session was not completely comfortable though. Had a few problems with staying upwind so spent a lot of the time trogging upwind whilst planing, and often I didn´t have enough space to gybe (hence lots of tacking practice). Think it was maybe the strong current (same direction as the wind) that was carrying me downwind a lot. With the wind fully honking now, came in at 2.30pm for a break. Went out again half an hour later, and decided to take out one of our centre´s wave boards to make the most of the stronger wind and also the waves that were beginning to appear due to mid-tide. Weapon of choice...a shiny new 2003 JP Wave 79, now free after the departure of the big group of Frenchies yesterday. Nice! Wind was now howling leaving me fully powered up/slightly overpowered on my 4.6. But with the wave board it was quite easy to keep everything under control. Took me a few runs to get used to it, but then was sailing it no probs, and really starting to appreciate the extra lightness, liveliness and manouverability. Sailing it was surprisingly easy, not the twitchy slow-to-plane ride I was expecting and definitely no harder than the Axxis really, but it was clearly a much better board for the nuking conditions. Even tried a little bit of waveriding on it at the start, and although without much success it was good fun trying. Gybing it went reasonably well - a few nice dry ones, and I definitely got the feel for it on the new board. Finally I can see that my gybes are improving - especially with the 4.6, which is much lighter and easier to handle than the 5.2. Some good jumps but nothing special. The swell/chop didn´t seem to be co-operating as well for jumping as on some other days. However for the jumps that I did pull off controlling the super-light wave board in the air was so much easier than the Axxis, as was recovering from spin-out. All that was needed after a badly placed spin-out landing was a quick yank of the tail with my back foot whilst still in the strap, and the board would respond and plane away no probs. Very different to the Axxis with the bigger fin which requires more forceful persuasion to recover it from spin-out. Unfortunately and not surprisingly after so long on the water, after a while fatigue started to kick in big time, and performance deteriorated rapidly as a result. Being slightly overpowered certainly didn´t help. Eventually came in at 4.45pm, and with the tide now high a 10 minute swim through the wind-shadow back to the beach was necessary. Never a great way to finish. Today almost gets the coveted 5 stars due to my good performance with my tacking etc at the start, and the fun fun fun fully powered up afternoon session with the new wave board later on. Tiredness/overpowered-ness at the end and the resultant less good performance knocks it down to 4 stars though. |
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