Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Adylett Blasting
Got out Saturday at Adylett NC, at Billy Mckindreys place. It was Nuking all day, which meant i got the chance to sail on my newly acquired f2 ride 277 board, and 5.0 sail. This was my first real sesh on a 100l board, and i pretty much sailed all day. I had trouble jibing the board because I am not used to such a narrow board. I only ended up hitting 3 jibes the entire day, but thats better than none. I did get my water starting down pretty good though, considering i went in the water almost every single time i jibed. I also got a chance to work on my jumps, I don't think i got anymore than 3 feet of air, but I did learn to land them with out spinning out. When i jump, i used to spin out everytime, but after saturday I was able to learn to land the board down wind which prevented the spin out. I am still going to spin out some probably, but i am learning. I understand now why everyone likes sailing smaller stuff so much better the board was so much more controlable than my 130l board. I am looking forward to getting some more practice on it so i can hit my jibes, i'm working up to being able to sail in the big bay swell on the windy days.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Windsurfing Curse
Well i'm back in hampton roads and my hectic job is finally over so now i have time to start writing on my blog again. I'm sure most of you have given up even opening up my page lol, i don't blame you. Anyway, since iv been back at school I have been out a handful of times and i have been having the WORST LUCK any one can imagine. I'd like to say i have a windsurfing curse. The reason i say this is because every single time i have gone windsurfing i have broken something! and its starting to piss me off frankly. let me push back a couple months to when i went to the outerbanks this is where i think i aquired my curse. I went out sailing at windmill point in nags head and when i left i forgot to strap my board to my car. So, needless to say my board flew off my car and got all banged up. I was lucky because myboard bounced once and then into grass, so only the starboard rail go damaged, which i have since fixed. That was just the start of the curse. So i get back down to hampton roads and was very excited to be able to start sailing again. My first day out I took my brother to get him hooked on windsurfing and to teach him. on this outing i got a crush in my 460 mast. This is my most widely used mast which as of now is out of order.
The next time i went sailing it was blowing 25 mphish and i decided to go sail with the big dogs at buckroe beach. Buckroe beach is infamous for huge shore break in on shore conditions like it was that day. Needless to say the shore break was 4-5 feet, and it was a blast surfing down the waves and jumping off of them. There was only one problem, I was on my 130 l board with a 7.0 sail. The totally wrong set up for those kind of conditions. It was a blast when i was up and going but turning around with 4-5 foot waves is really difficult for me. So, basically i would go to jibe, eat it with my huge board and sail, let the wind blow me back to shore and beach start and go again..../repeat back and forth.....anyway one of the times i got stuck in a section of the beach which had worst shore break than any of the other parts. the 4-5 footers kept comming very consistantly and there wasn't much of a break for me to get up and go. A set came and slowly turned my board after each wave hit it and i lost control...my gear went into a death roll and snapped my 490 mast and ripped the luff sleeve of my 7.0 sail with it. so far im down a sail and two masts.
So, all i had to sail was my formula gear and my newly aquired 100l board (did not have it yet that day at buckroe) . Basically light wind gear and high wind gear.... i can't rig my 7.0 sail my 8.5 sail or my 6.3 sail because the masts are broken. So i go to sail on a beautiful day blowing 12-15 with my formula gear at anderson park. Anderson park is known for being shallow, but i figured i would just walk out really far with my gear and i would be ok... I get probably a good 100-150 yards off the beach and the water is waste deep at this point. For those of you who know anderson park it was a good 20 yards from the point of the fishing pier. So i hop on my board and get going, and i was ripping, was my first time really comfortably dialed into my formula gear. I go for about 30 yards and .....crunch slam....basically ripped my fin right out of my board and damaged the box. So now my formula board is in need of serious repair to the fin box which is going to be difficult and i can not sail that.
That leaves me with my 100l board and my 5.0 sail and that is all that i can sail at this point. Since, iv broken something new litterally every time iv been sailing the next time i go with that stuff il probably end up breaking that too. I don't know what to say besides i have some kind of bad curse. I finally aquired a nice variaty of sails and boards for a whole range of conditions so that i can sail alot, and now i am basically back to square one until i get some new masts and fix my board. Hopefully know one else gets as bad of luck as i have had this season. I guess pushing the limits in windsurfing is a dumb idea, thats basically why i have broken stuff.
The next time i went sailing it was blowing 25 mphish and i decided to go sail with the big dogs at buckroe beach. Buckroe beach is infamous for huge shore break in on shore conditions like it was that day. Needless to say the shore break was 4-5 feet, and it was a blast surfing down the waves and jumping off of them. There was only one problem, I was on my 130 l board with a 7.0 sail. The totally wrong set up for those kind of conditions. It was a blast when i was up and going but turning around with 4-5 foot waves is really difficult for me. So, basically i would go to jibe, eat it with my huge board and sail, let the wind blow me back to shore and beach start and go again..../repeat back and forth.....anyway one of the times i got stuck in a section of the beach which had worst shore break than any of the other parts. the 4-5 footers kept comming very consistantly and there wasn't much of a break for me to get up and go. A set came and slowly turned my board after each wave hit it and i lost control...my gear went into a death roll and snapped my 490 mast and ripped the luff sleeve of my 7.0 sail with it. so far im down a sail and two masts.
So, all i had to sail was my formula gear and my newly aquired 100l board (did not have it yet that day at buckroe) . Basically light wind gear and high wind gear.... i can't rig my 7.0 sail my 8.5 sail or my 6.3 sail because the masts are broken. So i go to sail on a beautiful day blowing 12-15 with my formula gear at anderson park. Anderson park is known for being shallow, but i figured i would just walk out really far with my gear and i would be ok... I get probably a good 100-150 yards off the beach and the water is waste deep at this point. For those of you who know anderson park it was a good 20 yards from the point of the fishing pier. So i hop on my board and get going, and i was ripping, was my first time really comfortably dialed into my formula gear. I go for about 30 yards and .....crunch slam....basically ripped my fin right out of my board and damaged the box. So now my formula board is in need of serious repair to the fin box which is going to be difficult and i can not sail that.
That leaves me with my 100l board and my 5.0 sail and that is all that i can sail at this point. Since, iv broken something new litterally every time iv been sailing the next time i go with that stuff il probably end up breaking that too. I don't know what to say besides i have some kind of bad curse. I finally aquired a nice variaty of sails and boards for a whole range of conditions so that i can sail alot, and now i am basically back to square one until i get some new masts and fix my board. Hopefully know one else gets as bad of luck as i have had this season. I guess pushing the limits in windsurfing is a dumb idea, thats basically why i have broken stuff.
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