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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
24th August 2004 Windsurfing: Hayling Island Wind Direction: SW-W Wind Stength: 20 - 0 - 25+ knots Surf / Sea State: Lumpy choppy rubbish Air Temperature: 18ºC Sea Temperature: 17ºC Weather: Dry, some sunshine Max Speed: Distance Covered: Mates were all away/working so would be on me lonesome today. Although Adam tried to call me whilst I was on the water saying he was thinking of going for a sail - I'd thought his ankle was still buggered - should have called him oh well. Was up for a wavey session and planned on going to Avon. But after having been making enquiries to shops for kit I was looking for the past few days (wetsuit, 400 mast, 4.0), Andy Biggs in Gosport emailed in the morning saying they had some wetsuits on offer and a 2nd hand 400 mast. So decided to go to Hayling instead and make the annoying long detour via Gosport. In the end I need not have bothered - they just sold me a full priced summer suit and they had actually just sold the mast (?) to someone else. So probably could have gone to Avon and bought just the same from Spot-on-Water. Grrrr. Pissed it down when driving from Gosport to Hayling - not good I really didn't feel like being rained on whilst sailing. Also it didn't look all that windy, and hadn't done all the way from Southampton.... Also....was worried that all this faffing driving via Gosport would make me too late for the right tide state for the waves at Hayling. But turned up at 1.30pm and it was flat anyway (again - should have gone to Avon - probably would have been more chance of a wave there methinks grrrr). The sandbar was still exposed though so thought maybe some waves would appear as the time came in a bit more. At least it was windy. Went out on my 5.2 at first, comfortably powered for a few runs, nice 'n' easy flat water sailing. Then the wind died to almost nothing. Came in and wondered what to do. Turned on my phone and got Adam's call, so spent 15 mins or so trying to call/text him. By the time I had finished doing that noticed the wind was coming back again :) so went out again. Apart from a brief lull mid-session, wind then just kept on picking up all afternoon. Trogged upwind on a hunt for breaking waves, but no real joy. After a while was proper maxed out overpowered on the 5.2, and wasn't having much fun. Thought about calling it a day there and then, but then thought don't want to end the session on a bad note, so came in and changed down. Had 20 mins more well powered up manic blasting on the 4.5, but by now the tide was up and water state was messy lumpy crap which was making sailing very hard work and difficult. Also I was getting tired and not sailing all that well, so called it a day, before the tide got too high and started dumping. De-rigged and got in the car just before it started raining, so didn't get rained on at all, all sesssion :) Not a perfect session due to the crappy water state - similar to my last session at Hayling - felt it was restricting my sailing a lot - but still it was proper windy so can't complain. Highlight of the session was some very nice jumps - thought before the session today that I might go for some loops....but bottled it (excuses - no breaking waves, and just didn't feel comfortable to go for them when sailing big time overpowered in the messy lumpy chop). |
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