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10th March 2009
Windsurfing: Kuau
Wind Direction: NNE
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Air Temperature: Scorchio!!!
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Weather: Sunny spells
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There's been some very weird muggy cloudy rainy weather here in the past few days. I was expecting today to produce more of the same so it was great to see sunny skies and plenty of wind. My RRD is visiting the board repairers :( so I hired a Da Curve 79 twinnie for the day and checked out Kuau. It was big. The current NW'ly 8-12ft @16secs groundswell was producing solid mast high sets...hmmm... I was on the brink of whimping out and scampering off to Kanaha when Pascale turned up and talked me into giving it a go. Ok...what's the worst that could happen...???

The wind looked solid with the two guys already out were planing on small sails. So I rigged 4.5, launched, got washed downwind a bit as I took a few on the head but then planed out back well powered. Then a shower passed over...and the wind dropped. A lot. I found myself drifting downwind and having trouble even to waterstart. Those who have sailed Kuau will know that if you get into difficulties options for coming back in are limited to say the least. I had to sail downwind to Tavares surf beach, dodge the rocks there as the shorebreak attempted to destroy my hire board and walk the 10 minutes back along the road to Kuau to my car. Cock...but could have been much worse...at least I got in with all kit and body parts intact.

After retrieving my kit from the glares of the local surfers at Tavares I had a look at Ho'okipa. I was almost tempted into giving it a go but with the wind still very dodgy and waves still humongous I decided that discretion was the better part of valour. I feel like a Ho'okipa session is long overdue though and the swell is forecast to drop off so maybe tomorrow.

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