rogerta
| Venues | Board size | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 85 | 95 | 116 | 190 | ||
| Cornwall | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| North Devon | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Poole | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Christchurch | 11 | 1 | 3 | 15 | ||
| Lepe & Calshot | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Hayling Island | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | |
| The Witterings and Bracklesham | 14 | 1 | 13 | 28 | ||
| The Gower and Pembrokeshire | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Kimmeridge | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pagham | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| La Maison Clemenceau, France | 3 | 3 | ||||
| South Devon (Bigbury) | 3 | 3 | ||||
| La Torche, France | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Total | 40 | 7 | 37 | 18 | 1 | 103 |
Each cell shows number of sessions, click on a cell for more details.
Hayling Island on 30/06/12
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| Board: | 95 litres |
| Sail: | 6.25 |
Nice sunny windy afternoon. Loads of the club out enjoying the conditions. Wind really filled in and was well powered up - getting a handful in the gusts. Typical short hayling chop slapping the board all over the place. Great blast out with the dude himself - Juanito - good fun.
Lee on Solent, Hillhead & Stokes Bay on 24/06/12
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| Board: | 95 litres |
| Sail: | 6.25 |
After some serious faffing involving 3 trips to Halfords, finally sorted the roof rack bars out. By the that time it was nearly high tide so options were limited. So went local to Hillhead. Nothing special, just blasting about avoiding the tea baggers. Got a bit tedious after a while what with the solent chop so called it a day.
The Witterings and Bracklesham on 22/06/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Bracklesham at its best - cross-on with one of the longest period swells I've seen down there - there were acres of flats between the waves. Waves had plenty of punch for some backside riding and jumps. Fantastic evening. Only downer was it was cut short by the fact I managed to shear one of the bolts on my back footstrap on landing a jump.
Added by Juanito on 23/06/12
Sorry Roger i could not make it what a month you're having catch up soon
J
The Witterings and Bracklesham on 16/06/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.0 |
Arrived at Bracklesham at lunchtime to find no-one out as it was high tide and completely onshore. Visited the surf shop to talk surfboards and then returned back to the beach and went out. It was challenging going given it was directly onshore with some fairly meaty white water around and the wind was very light on the inside. Once out back it was pretty mental but provided some great backside riding. Another great sail in the sunshine. Hope everyone else managed to grab some of this - excellent day.
Christchurch on 16/06/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.0 |
Arrived down at Avon for an early session to find just one other guy out on a 3.6! Sunny, warm, windy with a few waves - you can't ask for more. Had a great sail - maximum of 4 people sailing - love it. Crowds started arriving about 10.30am so packed up and moved up to Bracklesham.
Christchurch on 08/06/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Decided to head home and try and get a sail on the south coast given how mental it was on the north. Got to Avon early evening and had a sail in choppy waves on the bar - good fun but given the epic conditions I'd had on the north coast - it didn't compare.
By the way have Chichester council lost the plot - £12 to park for over 4hrs at Avon Beach - unbelievable.
North Devon on 08/06/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.0 |
Well the wind that had been talked about all week really came in today. The main beach was totally unsailable today - closing out up and down the beach with white water as far as you could see. Went round to the other car park that the locals had been talking about. Definitely a great option although it can only be sailed either side of high tide and there is some serious tidal flow running through the estuary mouth. Effectively in a south westerly, you sail out from the south side of the estuary mouth across really smooth swell lines to the bar on the north side of the mouth where the waves are really ramping up. Definitely see the benefit in sailing from there but to be honest it was just too much survival conditions to enjoy. The wind was just mental making it a challenge just getting to the waters edge.
North Devon on 07/06/12
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| Board: | 95 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Thursday was cross offshore and super gusty. Anything from a 7.0 down to a 3.0 would have been good at some point during the day. So went with a 4.7 to avoid getting seriously mullered and a 95 for the float.
I'd been surfing in the morning and there was some great ground swell which was being held up by the offshore winds. The wind coming up the face made it a struggle to paddle on to the wave but once on the wave you got some amazingly long rides.
Switched to windsurfing in the afternoon and a few of the locals turned up. We were sailing up towards to town end of the beach, picking up the set waves and riding them back to the lifeguard hut. They were epic rides, I counted 11 bottom turns on one wave. They just went on and on and on. It was like being in a movie, looking down the line of this totally green wave stretching away into the distance - just epic conditions.
The quality of the waves gets this my best ever rating.
North Devon on 06/06/12
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| Board: | 95 litres |
| Sail: | 6.25 |
Arrived down at Westward Ho on Monday after a serious bout of man flu over the weekend. Beautiful sunny day but no-one about. So given I appeared to be nobby no-mates, decided to go round to Saunton for a surf where it would be a bit more sheltered from the northerly breeze. Surfed under the cliffs with the locals on a lovely clean right hander. Sooooo nice being back in proper ground swell waves rather than wind waves we normally get on the south coast. Tuesday was wet and miserable so toured the surf shops in Braunton looking for a new board and then went for a surf on a test board at Saunton. Really old skool so changed back to my own board.
Wednesday the sun came out again and there was a light onshore breeze so sailed at the Ho - no-one else out but some locals came down for a look and ended up getting the low down on where they all go in a SW'ly. All of them were talking about the car park on the other side which was where Nigel told me about. Friday was going to be the day.
Enjoyable day floating about in the waves trying to pick some off. A Wind SUP would have been great today.
Cornwall on 09/04/12
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| Board: | 80 litres |
| Sail: | 4.7 |
Started on a 5.5 but quickly changed down to a 4.7 which was the better option even if the conditions were quite gusty. An excellent sail with some decent swell coming in. Juan, John, Steve, Mark and Gen out as well. I think we out numbered the locals today. Fantastic to be out in the waves again and we were extremely lucky to get these conditions at this time of year. Sailing with friends and rounded off with a meal and a few beers at Ricks - what more can you ask for - an excellent day!!
