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justal Administrator  Member#: 1 Location: Registered: 21-07-2002 Diary Entries: 2990 Mood: Just Chillin Dude |
30th January 2003 Windsurfing: Golf Course Car Park, Borth Wind Direction: N Wind Stength: 30-40 knots Surf / Sea State: Choppy Air Temperature: 0C Sea Temperature: 8C Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: What an absolutely mad session!! The wind was just as strong as yesterday and just got stronger, the swell was much smaller but there was a lot of steep, short 1 foot chop making its way south along the coast parallel to the beach in a mad procession. The wind was whipping up spray from this chop and the whole of the sea was just a mass of spray. The sun was shining, there was snow on the hills and the temperatures where pretty low! I went out with my wave board and 4.5m sail and had an excellent sail. I was on my own, so not going too far out to sea, but had some good jumps off the small swell and chop. I was going for little Donkey Kicks as well, and made them OK...Although they probably looked crap from the beach, they felt pretty good to me! :) I did find that I tended to let go with my back hand on the bigger ones for some reason though. Of course, if they had been big tweaked table tops that I was doing one-handed it would have be fine, but they were just poxy little Donkey Kicks and I hadn't intended to let go!..Oh well, one day maybe. A couple of times a bigger set managed to fight its way through the mad chop and I was able to drop into it and carve off downwind before adding to the spray by carving off the lip fully powered up...Cool! After about an hour of this, the wind just went ballistic. I got thrown over the front on a gybe, then catapulted a few times whilst waterstarting. I managed to get going again and just had to point as far upwind as possible to maintain control and slow myself down. I couldn't see a thing now as the spray had gone mad, so when I got back to the beach I decided enough was enough and struggled my way back up the beach. Even this was difficult in the mad winds, and I had to stop a couple of times and pretty much lie on top of my kit to stop it taking me off down the beach!! Just standing on the beach without any kit was bad enough. What a session!..A little warmer and some other people out would have made it perfect. |
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