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4th September 2009 Windsurfing: Hove Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: F5-6 Surf / Sea State: Head high Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Max Speed: Distance Covered: Hove hotpipes for me. Launched at 3:30pm ish and returned to beach again at 7pm!!! 4.5m Ezzy on Evil Twin 70. Probably the perfect size sail overall, sometimes a bit of excess power, and then other times needed a bit of a pump. There was an amazing hour when huge dark clouds stayed about half a mile offshore and it was blue skies over land. Wind went slightly lighter but it was a bit of a Close Encounters type of moment. Waves were a good size with some overhead peaks and some lovely clean faces. It was a challenge to pick out good big ones and they seemed very closely packed and sort of staggered for long down the liners. It worked well if you kept ahead of the peak by charging on without delaying to study your handy work!! Interesting when compared to Tuesday's session with the tide pushing in. Swallowed a lot of sea water today: lots of smack downs, at least one torpedoed high jump and quite a few spray- froth- top- turn- slide- recovery gobfuls of foam. Evil Twin was solid on the bottom turns and I'm learning the ropes off the top. What it struggles to do is force a top turn where theres no hint of a lip. So timing and looking ahead are vital. It can carve a nice round turn on an open face but you cant just jam your heels in on a sloped shoulder like you might with a bigger single fin. However, give it a wall of whitewater or a pitching lip or just a steep lip and it responds well. Even punted clear of a few more frothy lips today. |
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