jonathan
| Venues | Board size | Total | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 74 | 84 | 91 | 95 | 99 | 105 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 115 | 125 | 133 | 135 | 140 | 367 | ||
| Pagham | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Weymouth | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Poole | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Morocco | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Christchurch | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Lepe & Calshot | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Isle of Wight | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay | 1 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 66 | |||||||||
| Hayling Island | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 25 | |||||||||||
| The Witterings and Bracklesham | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Dahab | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | ||||||||
| South Devon (Bigbury) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 11 | 7 | 49 | 3 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 148 |
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Hayling Island on 21/01/12
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| Board: | 91 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Unfortunately didn't make the megabash but came down on the Saturday. Started rigging a 5.9m and then changed my mind to a 5.3m. However a couple of runs on the 5.3m and I changed down to the 4.7m. It was mega-gusty due to there being quite a bit of North in the wind direction. It did mean it was very flat by the shore but on the sandbar there was some interesting refraction of waves. Not really a classic day but at least it was warm.
Added by Andrew on 21/01/12
After a million texts, managed to miss you, sorry. We went for a walk along the beach instead (Actually, I never really intended to sail - too hungover). Looked good, but very gusty
Hayling Island on 02/01/12
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| Board: | 91 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
A great start to the year. Got down to Hayling to find Genevieve and John out and Juan on the beach with the boys. It is not often that Juan persuades me to take a smaller sail than I was initially planning - but it was a very good shout - thanks Juan!
4.7m and a floaty board was a perfect set-up with some beautiful lines of swell backlit by sunlight and clear skies - something which seems to have been in scarce supply over the Christmas period.
Had a great couple of hours before the wind dropped off. Rounded off nicely with a cup of tea and cake from the Hierro-mobile.
Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay on 28/12/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 5.9 |
The subtext to today's session could be "blink and you'd missed it" - referring to the wind rather than the effect of the low water temperature..
Forecast looked great but got down to Hillhead to find it extremely gusty. Rigged 5.9m in the hope that it would fill in, but instead it dropped off. In the end I had to resort to light wind freestyle - not ideal for 28 December I have to say. Saw a big raincloud heading our way and instead of doing the sensible thing and packing up, decided to stay out in the hope that it would bring some wind ahead of it.
The great news was that it brought some wind, but then the rain veered off South of us - the best sort of squall. Managed to hang onto the 5.9m which was uncomfortable to start with but then as the squall passed it was OK - and the wind did hang around long enough for it to make hanging around the right decision.
Hayling Island on 03/12/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 6.6 |
Not as windy as I thought, but the sun and company made up for it. There was a bit of Northerly in the wind which made it quite gusty and it is a long time since I have seen Hayling so flat. Nice to see Juan, Genevieve and family as well as John and Heather. Thanks also to Jane for letting me go whilst she and the kids put up the Christmas decorations at home 
Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay on 23/10/11
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| Board: | 91 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Thought I'd better not stray too far from home given that Jane is 38 weeks pregnant. Also, if I am honest, I had a sneaky feeling that Hillhead would be better than Hayling today - SSE is pretty much cross shore at Hillhead (and tends to be nicely accelerated by funnelling along the Solent).
I wasn't disappointed. Initially went out on my 99l freestyle board and 5.3m. It started a bit marginal, became well powered, and then became uncomfortably overpowered. Switched to a smaller board and 4.7m and immediately got the biggest jumps I've ever had at Hillhead. Not sure if it was the favourable angle of the chop to the wind or whether its because I prefer port tack jumping (probably a bit of both).
A great afternoon.. and a beautiful sunny day. Just a shame a didn't manage to meet up with everyone at Hayling.
Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay on 17/09/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 5.3 |
Not as windy as forecast but by the end of the afternoon I had switched to a smaller board and could have been on my 4.7m. It was a shame about the fishermen turning up and casting their lines right where everyone was sailing.
Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay on 28/08/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 5.9 |
In the past I've been quite disparaging about Hillhead at low tide, but this year I have changed my mind. Not sure if that is down to me, or down to shingle bars shifting but I've had a few really nice sails at low tide down at Hillhead this year with nice flat water perfect for trying freestyle. This was one of them. The only downside was that the wind was quite flukey so there was only about 45min of solid planing winds for my 5.9.
Best moment of the day was the upwind 360 I did just after overtaking someone. He thought I was tacking and sailed very close behind me. If I hadn't hung onto it then either me or my sail would have landed on his board.
Isle of Wight on 19/08/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 6.6 |
Wasn't expecting to sail today however some sun seemed to have created a bit of a sea breeze. Unfortunately by the time I had rigged, it seemed to have disappeared - so another hour or so of lightwind shenanigans.
Really didn't do very well with wind this week, but I would stress that Yaverland is a great beach and one I would very much like to sail at again with a bit more wind.
Isle of Wight on 16/08/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 5.9 |
Still somewhat gusty but managed to get planing from time to time and had the whole bay to myself. Good for lightwind practice in between the planing runs
Isle of Wight on 15/08/11
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| Board: | 99 litres |
| Sail: | 6.6 |
Wind wasn't enough to plane today, just to test my new harness and try and few light wind tricks
