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Owner: redmullet
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Location: Aberdeen
Registered: 16-02-2005
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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
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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.
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