Great forecast, long wind-drought.
Hope everyone out there is enjoying this splendid surf season. Today witnessed some juice alight our shores. Cross offshore sweetness.
If like me you are waiting for the waves and see hardly any posts here at the moment. I thought it was time to catch up on some wavesailing action here in little old Guernsey. It might cheer you up!
Well Mother Nature has thrown her toys out of the pram again and came up trumps with another cracking down the line wavesailing session.
A perfect day. The wind ramped up from 20-25kts up to 40 gusting 45. Hutchy and I were the first to show up at Vaz, then gradually more folks started showing up. A quick peek over the wall, good news greeted us with a nice size swell rolling into the bay. A quick discussion on sail size. So, threw on the 4.7 with the 80lt. Hutchy had already been out for 5-10min and was already working his way up to the Pocket, so I did the same, nailing it up wind. In the end, it took me one long tack and I was up where I wanted to be, and this was where the waves are happening.
Oh my lord, hooking up on a nice size wave on my first run. Now I know for a fact I'm not hacking the wave apart like Josh Angulo or Philip Köster, but it sure felt like I was. I was up there in the Pocket by myself for about 1/2hr before Matt and the rest of the crew joined me. Lots of waves with lots of turns. Some were logo-high with 4-5 bottom turns some were 3-4, some were 1 or 2, chest high, but damn, the board was doing what I wanted it to do, nice sharp turns, no cutting loose, no catching an edge. At first, I was moderately powered with the 4.7 and then it started to notch up. It got to be too much to handle and I was having troubles holding on with the backhand on the top turns. So, deciding to call it a night as light was failing us, you just have to love these dark winter night. Light stops play................
Alright, so the next few photos are just some gratuitous shots from Matts Gopro.
Stoked to be getting on the water.