Windsurfing - Pevensey Bay

Site Designed, Produced and Maintained by
Pixelwave Design.

Last Active : Never

Forces-of-Nature » Personal Diaries » Windsurfing - Pevensey Bay

May so far in the Forces-of-Nature Diaries
Total Entries: 19494 This Months Entries: 32 My Total Entries: 0 My Entries this Month: 0	Most Active Members: squiz (16 entries) maker (16 entries)	Most Stoked Members: squiz (Stoke Factor: 56 ) maker (Stoke Factor: 49 )

Member Details

Session Description

Toys Used

Owner: krafty
Member

Member#: 3052
Location:
Registered: 28-11-2006
Diary Entries: 467

Mood: waiting for wind

19th October 2006
Windsurfing: Pevensey Bay
Wind Direction: S
Wind Stength: 15-18knts
Surf / Sea State: big shorebreak, decent swell t
Air Temperature: okay
Sea Temperature: fine
Weather: okay
Max Speed:
Distance Covered:

Pevensey Bay was horrible with big shorebreak for a good 4 hours past high tide ... approx 2 hours after high tide it looked okay, then wind switched a bit more onshore and despite tide falling, the level remained high and it was even worse.

Just as got opportunity to launch, wind dropped a notch, and even though i had rigged my 5.6m Remedy & 3S97 so i could get out okay, the big waves, inside rip and masses of thick stringy seaweed did enough between the big dumping waves to thwart my attempts.

A nice welcome to another german visitor to the area, Thorsten has been touring UK for past week or so (did Daymer Bay so hope didn't hook up with any of our miserable kernow krowd ) and according to his german guide to UK windsurf spots, no mention of high tide shorebreak for pevensey

credit to francis, who is old enough to know better and seemed to have a deal going with the big man upstairs ... as he decides he's going to launch, wanders down and there's a 2 min respite in the dumpers ... though he may have owed the big man a couple of quid as he turned the wind down a bit too forcing Francis to come back in and rig a bigger sail

Couple of guys launched from Rosetti, where it looked a little tamer but also was a little sheltered so it was a wobble out over less punishing waves before finding the wind. Lesson .... look up there before rigging when it's dumpy as that !

Off to camber tomorrow, so none of this high tide launching worry, though I'm sure I'll get spanked properly somewhere out there Gutted, you still up for the trip .. PaulP ... fancy a road trip ?

Toys Used: