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Mood: waiting for wind

26th March 2009
Windsurfing: Pevensey Bay
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Stength: 20-35 knots, mainly 25+
Surf / Sea State: lumps moving about, and even s
Air Temperature: 10-12 ish
Sea Temperature: ok
Weather: overcast but generally bright
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Distance Covered:

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Nice to get Pevensey in proper side-shore SW conditions for a change.
Waves started to form up in sets as tide fell to mid-tide during session.
Wind was pretty strong when gusts came through, clicked 35 knots on windy on the beach but sure it was stronger out the back !
First sail with U-Surf for a while (he's a proper wuss when it's cold), and VFW Mark joined us not long after we'd gone out (delayed by yet another customer).
U-Surf and I both went for our 84ltr wave boards and 4.7m rigs (his being a 60 wide U-Surf and Gaastra Poison, mine a Fanatic New Wave Twin and Ego).
We both applied extra downhaul pretty quickly.
It was getting to be 4.2m weather if honest, but with a rip on the inside making things a little iffy if you were there in a lull, and us both being too lazy to change down ...... we carried on.
Mark rocked up and we told him 4.2m would be best, but he also went 4.7m in the end, with bonus downhaul applied, and plugged into his RRD 90 wave thingy.
All three of us creep into the over 85kgs club, so take it from me that it was pretty windy.
As the waves shaped up, it was a ramp fest for jumps. Wasn't brilliant for riding though we could manage a wiggle or two between gusts on what was on offer.
I should probably apologise to Gutted for taunting him as the poor fella is office bound weekdays at the moment (though with iminent clock change I reckon he'll be squeezing some afternoons off out of his holida entitlement) .....
Really good fun session on the Twinny before I switched to the AllWave 92 for some extra jumping action on the inside ramps, using the extra width to get up to speed quicker than the narrower twinny to gain extra altitude. My Allwave 92 is the same width as U-Surf's 84ltr U-Surf, and worked really well even out the back in the choppier nukin conditions !!
Actually feeling sunburnt, though I know it's windburn really, and totally satisfied after today's session.
Tomorrow I reckon I can afford to work an hour longer before bunking off for another session, though perhaps it'll be less windy so can use a 4.7m without stretching my arms any further !!

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