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Harry Member Member#: 186 Location: Registered: 14-04-2003 Diary Entries: 418 |
14th October 2005 Windsurfing: Tiree Wind Direction: S (cross-on-on) Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Head high Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Sunny spells Max Speed: Distance Covered: Skived off work Thursday to get to Tiree a day early and avoid the risk of the ferry being stuck in Oban on Saturday due to "adverse weather conditions". The van made it! Ferry arrived 9.30am and Martin and I were up for sailing straight away so we attempted to find our way to the Maze. Followed some other vans, got lost, but eventually found a beach with a few vans parked up. Turned out this beach was the one to the south of the Maze. Looked sailable but with some nasty rocks sticking out, v flat, and not much wind. We drove round to the track leading to the Maze but the gate was locked :( Thought about sailing off the beach to the south and heading downwind to the Maze, but first we decided to have a look at Balephuil. Lots of people out when we got there, including all the pros, and plenty of wind (and waves!). Very on-shore though, but we decided sod it we've had enough driving around let's sail here. Rigged 5.2 but stuck it on the Bee not Quatro cos apparently it was getting marginal. Was nicely powered up on the Bee and had a few good warm up runs to start with. Not too difficult to get out back despite the onshore-ness. Some of the waves were seriously chunky and dropping down onto them and attempting to ride back-side was an interesting experience on the non-turny Bee. All was going OK until stupidly allowed a mushy bit of white-water on the inside to break onto my board, making me catch a rail, fall-off awkardly and...oh shit...ankle twisting in strap...no no no... Limped up to the beach and shitty shit it felt bad NOOOO. Was this holiday over before it had barely started? Carried on sailing (probably not a good idea...but I did sail behind Andy King and see him pull off an absolutely perfect back-loop right in front of me). But the pain did not go away. Now I was seriously getting worried. Limped back up to the van and huddled up in a heap of self-pity.... 2 hours later though...no swelling and pain almost gone...YES! Thank f*ck for that. Seemed windier now so went back out on the Quatro and 4.5. However it had become very gusty on the inside so getting out back was difficult, and a few walks-of-shame resulted. Not the best session cos it was so onshore, but just so pleased to be here, beautiful beach, great sailing amongst all the pros, and praise the lord that my ankle was not buggered. Perhaps my lucky week. |
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