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badexcuseforasailor Member  Top Poster 2003  Member#: 116 Location: Registered: 26-01-2003 Diary Entries: 357 Mood: wheres the wind? |
6th September 2003 Windsurfing: Hayling Island Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: force 4 -5 Surf / Sea State: chop Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny / showers Max Speed: Distance Covered: Left home early to miss the traffic down almost to hayling just before 8am so stopped at Tesco's for supplies and a mega breakfast 3 sausages 3 rashers of bacon 2 hashbrowns, mushrooms, beans, tomatos 2 fried eggs and 2 rounds of toast for £2.99 ! Well fed and up for a good sail I arrived at the beach................no wind Sat around on the beach for a couple of hours still waiting for the wind decided to head to the campsite and set up tent and stuff. Got back the beach to a little wind so rigged up 8.5 and 283 and hit the water wind increased and was well powered up. The water was getting a bit choppy with the tide coming up over the sand bar I was still making most of my gybes so was quite happy. The wind increased more and was getting very over powered and was having trouble hanging on even with the extra large breakfast. Changed down to smaller board with 6.3 sail don' t know why but I just couldn't get on with smaller kit was well powered up but as soon as I hooked in the board would spin out I tried bearing away more but I could feel the sail wanting to drag me over the front. First thoughts mast foot pressure but boom was over shoulder height. Found out that its not good to enter a gybe while spinning out in chop things go a bit pear shaped had a couple more runs but still wasn't happy. The wind dropped off and had a few more runs back on the big kit before the wind dropped right off Headed back to the campsite then to the pub for a nice big meal and a few drinks |
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