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16th August 2007
Windsurfing: El Medano Wind Direction: NE Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Scorchio!!! Sea Temperature: Weather: WtW sunshine :) Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Proper windy early doors today. Started with 4.2 and straight away after
the first run had to whack on more down and outhaul. This left me maxed but
in control but as the morning progressed the wind became more holey and by
the end of the session 4.7 would have been the rig of choice. Not great
conditions tbh - gusty chop bothering with no real waves to speak of. Tom
and I thought about checking out the harbour wall but decided against as
the trip up and (especially) downwind would have been very dodgy in the
mental conditions out back. Turned out we made the right choice as Emile
said later that the waves were shit and getting there had been seriously
hairy.
Session 2 after lunch started much better. 4.7 perfection for the first
hour resulted in plenty more "I love windsurfing" moments helped by the
really nice Exocet X-Wave 73. Then the photoshoot began and predictably the
conditions worsened with wind and waves both dropping so that doing
anything remotely impressive in front of the camera became a real struggle.
Very frustrating as I had been really hoping for some decent shots. Ho hum
still a very good day and absolutely knackering as well with 5-6 hours of
constant board changing and photoshoot shenanigans.
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