Site Designed, Produced and Maintained by
Pixelwave Design.
|
|
| ||||||
| Member Details | Session Description |
Toys Used |
| Owner:
redmullet Member Member#: 1225 Location: Aberdeen Registered: 16-02-2005 Diary Entries: 93 Mood: Pleasantly chilled! |
22nd October 2006 Surfing: Rattray Bay, Aberdeenshire Wind Direction: NNE Wind Stength: 0-5mph Surf / Sea State: 4-6ft Air Temperature: Warm Sea Temperature: Cool Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Rob and I decided to check out the conditions up the coast, as there was no wind either at Newburgh (where I live) or Belhelvie (on top of a hill where he lives). Rob had had a llok at Aberdeen beach on Saturday and the waves were big and clean, but nobody seemed to be out surfing, and he doesn't have a surfboard. No wind for his windsurfers either. We went to Ratty Bay and you could here the surf over the sand dunes, and when I went over the path, there were some relatively clean waves coming in at around 4 ft and in nice sets. The tide was a bit high, so you had to pick your point on the beach as some were a bit dumpy nearer the steeper parts of the beach. Anyway, I had put my 7'3" MiniMal in tha car, and Rob used his new Naish HybridWave 96 with an uphaul acting as a leash attached to the back footstrap - seemed to work OK. Had a reasonable hour or so further down the beach, but the currents were moving you around a bit, but as the tide started to fall, the waves began to become much cleaner and increased in size (some were over 6 ft) nearer to the carpark path, so we moved back up the beach. The currents were a lot less of a problem here and it was really easy to hold your station and position yourself near the peak. Had a great couple of hours on this part of the beach catching waves and generally messing around - neither of us are much good, but we had a lot of fun and managed a few half decent rides with a couple of turns here and there. |
Toys Used:
Statsbar:
| |||||||
  |
|
|
|||||||
|
Web Design in Wales, UK by 
Pixelwave Design.
© Alan R Cole 2000...