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Owner: IainO
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Member#: 602
Location: Herefordshire
Registered: 22-03-2004
Diary Entries: 8

20th June 2006
Windsurfing: Gwithian
Wind Direction: SSW
Wind Stength: F4-5
Surf / Sea State: 4-6ft
Air Temperature: 19
Sea Temperature: 13
Weather: Drizzle
Max Speed:
Distance Covered:

Spent the day at work carefully monitoring any live feeds that my work internet access would allow me to see. If it was Southerly then it would be Gwithian but too much West opened up a whole lot more territory to explore from the A1-Surf website. Slight emergency at work at 5pm delayed my speedy exit for 15 minutes then I hit the road. Even as I got to Newquay I was still undecided between Gwithian and Watergate but Gwithian won out in the end (besides it was quicker to turn left).

Parked up and advice from a few clambering up the goat track was that 4.7 was too small with the wind very gusty. The sets looked nice all the way up to Godrevy Lighthouse so I setoff down the goat track with my Ezzy 5.2 trussed to my boom and the big K-Bay under my arm. Turned out to be the right choice in the gusty strong rips for punching out, though a little over powered out back.

For the next 2 hours I experienced a feeling I\'ve not had since I planed out of my first carve gybe back in 93. The second run back in I timed it perfectly with a fair sized swell cranking up wind and staying on the shoulder until it started to peel. I dropped in, carved hard burying the rail with my front leg and lay the rig down. The speed of the bottom turn almost took me by surprise and the section had just started to crumble at the tip of my mast. I quickly lifted the rig and opened it up then adjusted my weight to yank the board round - it was no JP rooster tail spray but I almost broke the tail free on the next section before dropping down into another powerhouse bottom turn. Four turns into clean sections before the wave petered out, I couldn\'t believe it. Most of the time my down-the-line riding is a lazy S downwind on a wave (I\'ve seen myself on video, quite humbling), but this felt really dynamic and in tune with the wave.

The gauntlet was down and, though I got many more waves before fatigue got the better of me, none were as good as that one - or as many bottom turns. What a session, regardless of the rain and the gusty wind, it doesn\'t get much more perfect than this when you get in tune with the waves. Oh, and the tune in my head? Last one I heard on the radio as I arrived, The Fratellies (sp).

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