Back out on the water
There’s been some wind again the last few days. It’s normally very windy here all the time, but so far this year there hasn’t been a huge amount and when there has been I’ve either been away, busy with something else or unable to get out windsurfing for some other reason.
This week has been different though and I’ve finally got back on the water for a couple of decent windsurf sessions. I haven’t even felt too guilty about not working much. Our phone line has been down again so I have a very very slow and unreliable internet connection, the perfect excuse for not being able to do any work as a freelance website designer.
Wednesday was a lovely sail in the sunshine and I even sailed all the way across the mouth of the estuary to Graveyards and then all the way along the beach to Borth where I was able to check ou the new sea defences from the vantage point of the sea rather than the shore. The tide was quite high at the time and the new rock groynes looked pretty intimidating sticking out into the water with the waves crashing against them.
Thursday was just as good with bigger waves but a little less wind. I was out on my 85 litre Wave board with a 5.6m sail. Tom and Stuart joined me, Tom was out with a 6.6m sail and big board and Stuart was on a 5.9m sail and 100 litre board. Tom managed to break yet another sail, and Stuart didn’t have enough wind to get going properly. I had a good sail though, blasting out through the waves and colouring the sea red with my GPS tracks.
It was nice to be back out on the sea and I’m now looking forward to lazy, windy summer days – the water is still pretty cold at the moment.
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- Thursdays GPS Track
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- Coastal Gun Run
