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Wes Member  I Love Men in Uniforms!  Member#: 198 Location: Bath Registered: 27-04-2003 Diary Entries: 83 Mood: Wanting SW winds! |
8th October 2004 Windsurfing: Borth Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Max Speed: Distance Covered: After being rocked to sleep by the wind in the van, woke up excited ready for a day of sailing. Didn't want to go out alone so waited for some other bods to role up. Unfortunately the wind shut off completely in that time. Launched on a 7.8 lightning and my Stoke but there was simply no wind at all. Sailed up to the estuary but there was still nothing happening. Really disappointed I slogged back down the beach and came in. The entire demo packed up and moved to the estuary. Good move. I was first out on my 8.0 Heckler and Stoke, rigged as fast as I could because it was going to get really busy once all the demo kit got on the water. Ran into almost every sandbar going but had a good laugh doing it. The wind started to pick up and a few more people came out so I went in to steal some demo kit. Re-launched on a JP Supercross 93 and a Gastra Poison 5.8. The board was as fast as hell, really good fun but the sail seemed to have a very limited wind range, over powering well before I would have expected from one of my Storms. After a while I the wind picked up even more and I just wasn't comfortable on the 5.8. had some lunch then blagged a 5.0 Rock and too the JP board back out. Much better. Really fast, great through chop and really fast gybes. Had a ball. Once my arms felt like they were going to fall off I came back in and chatted to a few guys on the beach almost packed up when I realised that there was a Starboard S-type with a Storm 6.0 (couldn't hold down a 5.8 Gastra but the Tush was fine) lying there. Had to give it a go. Now that's what I call speed! Probably the fastest board I have ever been on. So fast in fact I didn't dare gybe it as I thought I would run out of water before the turn was completed. It also span out so badly that I could hardly hold it straight. Once it went, that appeared to be it. Nothing I was able to do to get it going again. I actually sailed it onto the beach sliding up the sand on my arse when trying to turn up wind! That's once crossed off my new board list.... |
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