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Hans@BW Member  Member#: 680 Location: Land Locked! Registered: 01-05-2004 Diary Entries: 22 Mood: Need some waves..... :-( |
9th January 2005 Windsurfing: Fairbourne Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: 25 - 30 Surf / Sea State: Waves Air Temperature: Chilly Sea Temperature: Weather: Max Speed: Distance Covered: I also went out this weekend just gone on Sunday, where it all started very badly, but ultimatley had a Mega result. I went to Fairbourne in Wales it was honking 4.5 weather. I got rigged up and took my newly modified home made wave board to the beach. I was just about to place it on the beach when a massive gust came through and ripped the board out of my hands. Well after it had spun and bounced down the beach half a dozen times it landed in a small pool - just before it went up the rocks!!! So in a valient attempt to save it from another spinning flight I leapt in to the pool and grabbed the board, only to find that I had jumped on to a rock!! Yes it did kind of hurt and several expletives left my mouth. So with a sore and bruised foot I eventually ventured to the sea. The tide was on it's way out so the waves were 3 to 5 footers just right for sailing in Jan - don't want anything too challenging. The modification to the board worked great and it now gets on to the plane very quickly and is alot smoother and easier to wave ride without loosing any speed. I had a great laugh. So after an hour or so I decided upon taking a break. Sat in the van I was stuggling to gain the enthusiasm to go out again as I was quite tired - sailing in the sea really does test your fitness and I am not very fit at present. Still I convinced myself that just a few more runs would be ok and I would be ok. So I ventured to the brink once more and boy was I glad! After blasting over the shore break I really nice peachy wave ramped up in front of my and remember thinking 'looks like a good ramp...'. So up I went sheeted in tightly, next thing I am thinking where's this going. The nose was going around to my left (port tack sailing) so I looked over my left shoulder, next thing I know I have gone round and I am looking at the nose of the board going in to the water, still in the straps I push the sail up and there I am up and sailing off...... yes I my very first BACKLOOP!!!! YEEeeeehhaaaaaa!!! It took me a while to get my had around what had happened. I turned around had a great wave ride back in getting 3 or 4 turns on the waves I picked out and decided yeah that'll do for today. MEGA STOKED! |
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