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Harry
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Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418
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30th August 2004
Windsurfing: Hillhead Wind Direction: NW Wind Stength: 15-20 knots Surf / Sea State: Flat/chop Air Temperature: 20ºC Sea Temperature: 17ºC Weather: Sun / occasional clouds Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Went to Meon to meet up with Bob and a couple of other guys (Luke and Pete
- don't know them so well). Gwyn whimped out moaning about his sore hands
and dehydration (?) from yesterday, and no sign of Jo despite her promise
to come today. Boring! Probably Jo was relying on Gwyn to give her a lift,
and when he decided not to come, that was a good excuse for her. Tsk.
Well they didn't miss all that much. Looked windy when I arrived around
1pm, so rigged the 5.2 despite other people being out on bigger sails.
Annoyingly found a small tear in the 5.2 near the clew - sure it wasn't
there last time I used it at Hayling - there were some scratch marks near
the tear as well so must have scraped it along some Hayling rocks GRRRR. So
had to patch it up with some unfortunately conspicuous white Specialised
Sailing stickers (all I had).
On the water - was good for the first 20-30 mins- nicely powered up. That
Bee+5.2 combo is a real winner in flat/choppy conditions. I was sailing
well also, better than yesterday, pulling off pretty much all my gybes,
plus my one duck gybe attempt was very clean. Strange after countless
failed attempts yesterday, but I suppose conditions were much easier today.
Would have gone for lots more if the wind had stayed.....
Which it didn't. Gradually dropped off as the afternoon progressed. Should
really have rigged my 6.0 and got out the JP, which probably would have
kept me sailing on and off for a lot longer (wind was up and down all
afternoon). But couldn't be arsed, and by now the kitesurfers were out in
force, taking up far too much space.
Not as good as yesterday wind-wise, but my good performance in the windy
period at the start of the session made up for that. For this reason in
some ways the session was more satisfying than yesterday, when I really
felt I was sailing below-par, but the relatively poor conditions means it
only gets 3 stars.
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