Who was out this weekend?.....

Originally posted by mike ellis I went out windsurfing today first on a mates old (2000ish) formula board and then on a short board. The formula board was much easier to get going and it got going quite scarily quick at some points but it was starting to get very bouncy off even the little bit of F4 solent chop. Then i crashed, flew round the front of the board, and the damn thing ran me over, smashed up my nose on the pointy end, and then the fin (50 odd cm) smacked me in the ribs, that hurt.

There is a God.

45 minutes at an average speed of less than a knot....

I also had an awesome time at carsington for the NSSA nats.  We needed more wind than the 7-10 knots we were given to put the 4K through its paces but we had a good time.  As we failed in the fast handicap i was happy to come third in mount haes but annoyed as that nice big trophy was so close...

Europe Nationals at Lancing this weekend - shame there was not more boats. Where were you all as you missed force 4 to 5 on Friday, force 4 yesterday and force 3 today.

Everyone is sunburned and exhausted - especially those of us running it.

The south coast is a beautiful place when the sun shines and the sea breeze kicks in.

and I got to sail my Contender as well.

Well we got our first bullet in the Alto today.

Had a slight sea breeze of about 1-2 which dwindled to bugger all by the
end of the first reach and the 5OH caught up and nailed us by dead running
then it was chasing zephyrs against the tide and using our superior
wndsurfing honed wind awareness we went on to secure a twenty minute
lead over the next boat which was the B14 that D&D had managed to coax
through the fleet.

We've had better sailing days, but at least it was warm and the sea was blue.