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.