Who was out this weekend?.....

last weekend there was no wind, sat and sunday i was on the cruiser so that was wasted, today we had 30 knots gusting into the 40s with someone seeing a 50, this on our club anemometer that reads low. anyway i took the kayak (read 2 foot wide, 9 foot long lump of plastic with self draining holes in the bottom) down and mucked about in the surf in the morning, then when the tide came in a bit more i was on safety boat for about half an hour and saw one broken mast and lots of capsizes before everyone decided there was too much wind (4 4.7s went out with fat people in them), safety boat was fun. after this we went pratting around in the kayak and i surfed one wave for about 100 metres. getting 100 metres offshore was a nightmare. so yeh, good day.

Originally posted by vscott Plenty of breeze at Kielder too - in fact with it going up in the 30 knots we called off the morning racing, but had a go at our Dam to Dam challenge (20 miles) in the afternoon when it dropped down to the lower 20s.

20 miles!!! that's a race for youngsters. Mind you we're thinking of doing the sheppey thing this year.

 

Wild and wet at Pevensey on Sunday, westerly 4-5 gusting 6 . Slightly off shore so good launching conditions. Quite a few signed on, fewer got on the water. A sailor who shall remain nameless (4th in the junior worlds) forgot his bungs. Exhausting upwind. Downwind legs are over so fast not worth using the spinny.  Reaches out to sea and back, bouncing from wave to wave, so much water in my face I thought I might drown. My wife on the wire screaming and laughing like a maniac. A Fantastic day. 3rd and 2nd place.

 

Monday blown out.     Tues back to work.

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10-15 kots on the blackwater, very shifty and gusty, made sailing the national 18 for the first time this season interesting...

wasnt quite out at the weekend but tuesday was mental at aquasports, we cancelled all the sessions and went windsurfing/pico sailing. had f7 gusts come through and on a tiny lake windsurfing is had cos you have to turn alot. even in a pico the bankl was coming up quite fast.

wow what a weekend. was at an 4000 event at broudstairs and was blow off on saturday with gusts of 40 knots and very gusty, i was up for going out and was so annoying not having my windsurfing kit,  today was nice till we had trenshal rain come in and the wind die but a nice f3-4 before that. did anyone go out on sat?