Bernie
| Venues | Board size | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 82 | 83 | 92 | 95 | 96 | 100 | 104 | 108 | 110 | 121 | 125 | 133 | 135 | 140 | 145 | 155 | 180 | 210 | 220 | 230 | 500 | ||
| Cornwall | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weymouth | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Poole | 8 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Christchurch | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lepe & Calshot | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lanzarote | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Quiberon, France | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hayling Island | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alacati | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| Kos, Greece | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Brandon Bay | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Thorney Island | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 117 |
Each cell shows number of sessions, click on a cell for more details.
Poole on 18/04/13
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Took advantage of a quiet day at work and slopped off early to enjoy my first blast of the year in some lovely Spring sunshine at Poole. An hour and a half of well overdue windsurfing; water still a bit chilly but other than that, just nice. Hopefully more like this in the next few weeks
Kos, Greece on 28/08/12
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| Board: | 96 litres |
| Sail: | 4.5 |
Third day of hols in Kos and what a contrast. Winds picked up overnight and now blowing a Force 8 and totally offshore! All dinghy sailors were banned from going on the water and there were just a few "advanced" windsurfers allowed out. 4.5m was great for the gusts but like wrestling with a gorilla and hard work.
Kos, Greece on 27/08/12
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| Board: | 133 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Second day of hols in Kos and much lighter winds, so it was a bit of freestyle stuff and then mucking about in dinghies. Main focus of the hols shifted to the beach lounger, a good book and more food then I could possibly stuff away.
Kos, Greece on 26/08/12
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| Board: | 133 litres |
| Sail: | 8.5 |
First day of our sailing holiday at Lakitira in Kos; light winds but good enough to get going on big kit. Nice to be out in shorts and t-shirt and 35 degrees of Med heat.
Christchurch on 11/08/12
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Arrived late at Mudeford after an abortive trip to Hamworthy, where the car park was full of local's cares that had been parked overnight.
Tide was naff in the harbour, so I lugged my kit over to Avon Beach and launched just by the run. It was a south-easterly so we had a great blast down to Henitsbury Head, me Mark and Jackie.
Lovely sunny day, with Grockles by the ton on the beach.
Bernie
Quiberon, France on 10/07/12
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| Board: | 108 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Last blast at Colomban Piage, this time a solid 4 hours and 42 miles of blasting around the bay with Helen and lots of Frogs.
Had to call it a day at 6pm on account of a pre-arranged meal in the evening, but could easily have sailed into dusk.
Quiberon, France on 08/07/12
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Another great day at our newly discovered spot, called Colomban Piage, near Carnac. Took my GPS this time and knocked up 36 miles of sailing.
Sunny and warm, Helen was doing well too.
Quiberon, France on 06/07/12
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
When blasting around in the offshore winds at the campsite beach, we could see dozens of sails on the far shore about 2 miles away, so we drove around the peninsular to the spot where they were, and low and behold, discovered a secret spot used by all the locals. A great little beach with cross-onshore winds and some lumpy water. Had a fantastic 3 hours of fun.
Added by Carl on 17/07/12
There's also another really good spot on the opposite side of the peninsular to where the Seavets go (Cote Sauvage side). Just North of the narrowest part of the peninsular you can launch and sail in flat water, its protected there by a rocky island just offshore, and then as you sail further North up the coast the waves get progressively bigger until you get to a proper surf beach. The wind on that side of the peninsular is generally a lot stronger and cleaner as it hasn't come over any land, well worth a look if you go again, much better wind and you have the option of flat water or waves from the one launch site.
Added by Bernie on 17/07/12
Hi Carl, I should have asked you before we went. It looked nice on the other side, including a bit windier, but we couldn't find somewhere to park which didn't have a height barrier for the van.
Maybe give it another go next year.
Regards
Quiberon, France on 02/07/12
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Went to Quiberon in Brittany with the Seavets to enjoy 2 weeks of windsurfing, cycling and relaxing. First time in the motorhome abroad with Helen. Campsite and countryside were great, but wind was totally offshore most of the time. Had a blast at the local spot next to the campsite but winds were marginal.
Christchurch on 17/06/12
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| Board: | 135 litres |
| Sail: | 6.5 |
Lovely warm day in a nice summer breeze. After a bit of blasting in the harbour I decided to carry my kit through the beach huts at Hengisbury Head and launched in the sea on the other side for some bouncy stuff. But at the furthest point from the beach my boom dismantled itself in an irreversible manner (basically it was f**ked). So with a bit of help from a friend, I de-rigged and re-rigged my kit in the sea so that the boom bits could be used to make an ad-hoc boom-thingy and I could limp back to the beach. Then off to H2O for a new mono-coque (and a new boom).
