April 28th Isla Canela

Should have taken the Equipe. No wind today..after I had rigged up!!

F2 Sputnik 290 WCE

F2 Sputnik 290 wce 120ltr

F2 Sputnik 290 WCE

Found this F2  Sputnik 290  on totalwind.net locally in Huelva, tried it out yesterday and it is a bullet!! more to come with this one I think!! 

Blitz, Frers one tonner

A couple shots of my old frers 40 one tonner, 1993ish

Blitz

Making the finish line with a torn genoa, we won though!

Early days

first board (Goolie) with magnum 5.7 fathead sail.
1980

A couple of photos that I recently found of me windsurfing in th 80s

waterstaring my 250cm sinker 1985

Mistral Screamer!!

Mistral Screamer 105ltr 2003

Could not resist it!! my impulsiveness has won again! nice board though from 2003 it needed some filling and repair near the nose which I will duly cover with some paint and it was at a great price!! so hopefully at some point I will get out with it!  maybe after  a few more sessions on the Equipe first though.

Finally windsurfing!!




April 12th with the 6.5m and Mistral Equipe

Finally after getting all of my kit together, repaired etc, I decided it was high time to get out and give it a go! so last Sunday I took it all down to the beach and with about 10-12kts of wind blowing I rigged my largest sail the 7.4m. I was not expecting much as I had not been out for nearly 15yrs but to my surprise I managed to beachstart the board straight onto the plane and get more or less instantly into the harness, not bad I thought! I even managed to do a tack although a bit wobbly! things were going great until finally my arms said no more! not bad though for an old duffer like me!! 

Mistral Equipe and 7.5m

So after last sundays success yesterday I decided  to give it another go, so with a new wetsuit ( the old one gave up!) and little more wind 15-18kts, I decided to rig the 6.5m sail, again straight off the beach and onto the plane, I even managed the rear footstraps this time until I wiped out! but great! the new  wetsuit was doing its job so I gave the "waterstart" a go ( it worked ! ) a couple of decent runs later I was done! the arms were giving out, but I had managed three important things, firstly the waterstart and secondly some reasonable gybes and more importantly I lasted about 3 times longer than last time. Great!!

Rigging up.