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South Devon (Bigbury) on 02/05/10
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| Board: | 102 litres |
| Sail: | 5.5 |
After a morning exploring an interesting garden in Salcombe with the triplets, we came back to find the forecast NE blowing form the river out to sea. People were zooming occasionally back and forth, and it seemed a pity not to join them. In fact, as I carried the kit out to the water's edge, it was clearly blowing pretty hard - I jumped into the footstraps to assist with holding myself steady before even bothering with the harness lines, as I planed away from the break! A lovely long zooming run across the bay, across the flat water being held down by the offshore wind... it was even sunny! Returned to the starting point to help Juan sort out adjusting his kit, and... The wind was never the same after that - yeah, we had a moderate run, with Juan heading out to the rocks, but both of us struggled back, him especially! The rest of the time was spent pretending we were having fun, as the flukey wind taunted us along with the almost-there groundswell that would have been quite fun if we'd had some power. Ah well. Bigbury, I know you can do it - just when I'm there please! Still better than drinking tea in the cafe though 
South Devon (Bigbury) on 01/05/10
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| Board: | 102 litres |
| Sail: | 5.5 |
Ah Bigbury!! Think I've sailed here just the once... And it was barely a sail this time! Faced with a rising tide, and a sinking wind, Messers Mckay, Hierro and Gouk ventured out in the hope of some late afternoon action. We tried the main beach, east of Burgh Island - nope. Then we tried the westerly beach, and tooled about for the best part of an hour, pretending to catch the not very big waves in a very light wind. Positives - I made every one of the tacks I attempted, which was actually pretty cool... except I only tried them on one tack but hey... Finally, it got to hard to do anything much, so we stood on the edge of the incoming sea and waited a bit until it wasn't so far to walk to get back, before lugging the kit back up the cliff and packing away, in time to repair to the Royal Oak for an excellent repast. And lots of beer.
South Devon (Bigbury) on 06/05/07
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| Board: | 102 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Blobbed out in the afternoon, but the wind came up and it got better before fading again. Nice start to the official season - no boots!!
