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Basher Member Member#: 165 Location: Registered: 09-03-2003 Diary Entries: 18 |
18th August 2003 Windsurfing: Brighton Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: Force 4 plus Surf / Sea State: EggBox Air Temperature: Warm Sea Temperature: Warm enough Weather: Grey/Sun Max Speed: Distance Covered: Well Monday wasn't bad at all, in fact it was the best day we've had in Brighton for weeks. Not least because the wind is back in it's proper SW direction. Could have rigged a 5.2 at lunchtime but it looked a bit up and down so I stuck up a 5.7 which was about right, given the lulls. First time on a wave board for 2 or 3 weeks, but the waves didn't match my enthusiasm – so I changed to the freestyle board and pulled off a few tricks for the tourists who needed cheering up since the sun had clouded over. A pretty Swedish student – over here on a language course – came by to chat me up and I think to give me her phone number, but she changed her mind when she took in the close- up – I think it must have been the bogeys streaming from my nose. Cool. Nice. Mmm. Talking of stringey snot, the bootlace seaweed is non- existant here now but, curiously, today there were loads of plastic shopping bags in the water – mostly Tesco's. (Do they have underwater supermarket's now? Do dolphins collect Nectar points?) For some reason there was also a long fishing rod floating in the water by the end of the derelict West Pier and, on closer inspection, it was intact. Claiming salvage rights I dropped in the water, poked the rod through one harness line and tied the other end to the boom with the outhaul tail. It was about 2 foot longer than the boom at each end. I then blasted back downwind to drop off my new prize at the Basher Beach Hut. The fishing rod was on the other side of the sail – which was fine until I had to gybe. Still, it's a proven fact that 9 out of 10 Swedish students prefer black eyes to green bogeys. By 4pm it went eggbox lumpy with the high water, so I stopped for a cuppa (and a hankerchief). Went out again later on a 7m, thinking this would be the last wind for a few days, so I might as well go big, for a bit of crash and burn. I'd say I took on those waves, and won. Must have looked funny, me wearing that eye patch though... I eventually packed up, knackered, at 6.30pm when the wind eased off. Annoyingly, I'd put everything away when it came back up to 5.7 weather and the waves began to shape up nicely on the falling tide. This was 7.30pm however, and it now gets dark at 8.30pm. Autumn's on the way, boys and girls! But no wind for a few days, if the BBC are right... Fishing, anyone? Basher |
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