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axxis Member Member#: 171 Location: Registered: 12-03-2003 Diary Entries: 18 |
16th June 2003 Windsurfing: Vetch's Beach, Durban Wind Direction: NNE Wind Stength: 25 knots Surf / Sea State: 4ft Swell, incoming tide Air Temperature: 26 C Sea Temperature: 23 C Weather: Absolutely clear Max Speed: Distance Covered: Again: So much for the "off season". 1 week away from the Winter Solstice and I have the best onshore breeze of the year on Durban Beach. Windmaps (NOAA world numeric modelling site) predicted 18-25 knots. Right on the nail. High pressure over land + High pressure over sea combined to produce a beautiful NNE. Constant, powerful, reliable. Medium winter swell about 4ft on incoming tide. Flat as a pancake next to the reef and quite nice clean swells occasionally breaking next to the North harbour breakwater. Rigged the 7.0 because it was all I had. 5.4 in for repairs and not back yet. Would have rigged 5.4 if I'd had it but 7.0 worked out fine. Gave it an extra downhaul tweak and left quite a floppy leach. Launched in easy shore-break. Wind was more from North than usual and therefore more side than the normal direct onshore which meant getting straight out through the waves was easy. Plenty of power in the sail to get quickly onto the plane and blast through / outrace the foamies. Spent my first few wet-gybes carefully adjusting harness lines to compensate for back-hand pressure. Had 3 superb sessions, broken only by the need for rest and socialising. Came in to chat to Andy twice while we rested. Sea was clear and pleasantly cool. Chop small despite onshore wind and lovely clean swells. Gybes down the face of swell next to breakwater were superb. Made about 70% of my gybes and of those about 40% exited on the plane. Think I completed my highest jump so far. Hit a 4ft piece of swell about to break almost dead straight at pace. Glided comfortably and naturally rotated slightly forward, landing nose first. A little too steep, on the landing, I think, and not enough absorbtion with the knees caused me to fall out but come up with a huge grin. Eventually had to quit from sheer exhaustion. Was still making nice gybes next to the break water but forearms so tired I was unable to catch the boom. Andy had a good sail as well with a 5.7 on his Mistral. His wave sailing is coming on and his gybing on the waves impressive. That should keep me going through work this week. |
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