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- Windsurfing dropped from the Olympics / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainThe Olympic committee has ditched windsurfing in favour of kitesurfing. On the face of it a big shame for those of us who think that board shorts over a wetsuit is a bad look. But along with this headline decision is ..
- Bail outs, Back loops and Back slaps / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainDammit, it has happened. Now I want go windsurfing every day again. This is a bad place to be, because there are so many more responsibilities now. You just get used to the equilibrium, work, life, windsurf balance and t ..
- Full Power Wednesday / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainIt is not actually possible to recall a number plate into the phone, whilst it is blowing its tits off. Wasting valuable water time I was trying to tell the automated person my numberplate so I could buy a parking ticket ..
- Boscombe Surprise / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainEven the reef was working! Now that is something that is un-expected! If I was the council I would be snapping happy and make car stickers saying "see we really didn't waste all your money", the boat hitting it was just ..
- Disaster at Kbay.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainArrghhh, is my most favoured expression. I didn't half moan. What I hate is mincing about for hours hoping the winds turns up. Kind of reminds of some windsurfing events. Kbay yesterday probably topped the top ten of un- ..
- Don't ever take Clyde to Kimmeridge again / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainKimmeridge Bay in Dorset features regularly on this blog as a sacred place for windsurfing. I'm sure I've read on here by someone, probably even me, that it's always worth going to Kimmeridge. Well is it fuck.Yester ..
- It was all wrong.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainI can't remember the last time I didn't actually enjoy a windsurf. For some reason today just didn't do it for me, I don't know why. It took me ages to rig up, I couldn't get out past the wierd shore break for a while, m ..
- Promising week ahead / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainNot seen one of these in a while. Wind, swell, rain (good for the garden) and looking to last all week too. Nice. I missed the bank holiday Monday session. I can't complain, I spent 10 days in Morzine having a lot of fu ..
- Easter Bankholiday Boscombe / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainEaster Monday, it could only be wet and windy. And it was - is. It's still light enough to sail as I write this at 8.45 pm. A welcome chance to try out some 'new' kit that I've been busy acquiring. There's the 'new' boar ..
- well done dunnett / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainCongratulations Gregg and Maria producing a lovely little girl, Alba Megan Lopez, born 17th March!! (what's wrong with Dunnett, dunnett?) ..
- Twinser Not Holding Bruch Back / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust been watching the Chelsea Napoli game, and perusing the interweb for some windsurfing inspiration in these doldrum times. The new Bruch movie is pretty breath taking too watch, not quite as good as the real thing bu ..
- Classic 2004 / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust trawling through my hard drive trying to find some pictures which have vanished, came across this classic movie of Tiree in 2004, when Coxy, Andy King, Will Ward and myself were jobless, homeless and hopeless (I thi ..
- End of the winter. Dark nights a distant memory, water warming up / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf Britainlast sunday at KimmeridgeClydeMini-Clyde Except for tomorrow's forecast which is for snow and sub zero temps. Anyway, a few photos from today and last weekend. Today was a pleasant couple of hours in the sunshine, not pl ..
- Wierd Forecast! / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainEarly Saturday, Cbeebies on (for Casey not for me), and I'm just checking the forecast and it is wierd (pronounced with an American Twang).. Today looks ok, southerly - meaning rain, but large swell period later so Avon ..
- Ouch. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainMonday morning and just time for a quick report on the blog to keep Clyde happy. Pretty much a perfect sup surfing weekend. Colin, Maria and I went over quite early on Saturday, not expecting any waves, just to go for a ..
- A Terrible Friend / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainI'm a terrible friend. Today just proved that. It was Matt's stag do, a very drunk affair involving a big fire in the middle of the new forest. This morning we were musing the idea of mountain biking in the New Forest. ..
- 1st Mid Week Special / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainTo get out in the week you have to be super organised. There was no time to look at several beaches, but we did anyway. Avon looked like it might have been fun if the tide was higher, typically it was out, all the way o ..
- Maui Project Project (Part 3) / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainNice pictures from Mr Waite’s Cornish adventure. Particularly the one of Casey, he’s starting to show his personality a lot more now. I wonder if this blog will still be going when he’s into windsurfing? Anyway, M ..
- Cornwall has changed! / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainFarms, Zoos, Aquariums, sightseeing and cycle tracks.. Hmm, not the sort of Cornwall trip I am familiar with. That would involve wet smelly vans, mincing round loads of beaches before going at the one you started out, al ..
- Maui Project Project (Part 2.) / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainI'm pretty sure the cold affects my brain, and that it should be a recognised medical condition that gets treated on the NHS, ideally with a doctor's orders trip to the Caribbean, Australia or Maui. 'Until then I'll cont ..
- Maui Project Project (Part 1.) / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainNo wind weekend, and temperatures barely above freezing. A perfect opportunity to clean out the van (and much needed if I'm honest). Things started well. I began to remove the rotting towels and sweep out the sand. Then ..
- 1 year ago / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust got these pictures from this time last year. One of my sisters friends wanted to do some "action sports" photography for a course she was on. Typically the weekend they visited was flat as a pancake and bloody freez ..
- Not Today / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainThis wasn't today unfortunately. I still have a 3 week old stinking cold and chest infection, plus work. Felt like it would have been a nice day for it though. High pressure and cold air back this weekend, so it could b ..
- Gregg tries to go windsurfing.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainRead on, as Gregg spent all morning "not" windsurfing... 10.30am "Highcliffe, always forget to go windsurfing there, I think it will be really good" "Arse, bugger, too sheltered and not breaking so well, ok back to ..
- fun fun fun in the sun sun sun / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainWhat a bonus today was. The plan was to go out in the afternoon, not in the morning. However BigSalty changed that. Highcliff was considered first, there were some surfers out but it was too sheltered. Kimmeridge would a ..
- Boscombe Reef / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainThis is an old story, but one I have been meaning to write briefly about for a little while. It seems a shame that there has been no further development on the multi-million pound Boscombe Reef. In fact there has been ..
- x off dtl / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainGood fun today, tide was low, wind was WNW and small long waves were coming in. Enough to get maybe 5 turns if you were lucky to coincide a good one with a gust of wind. It was gusty though, really gusty and all over the ..
- K4's Arrive in Time / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainWell, we thought they were lost in the back of a Royal Mail Trannie, but never doubt Her Majesty's most excellent service. They turned up in time for the weekends forecast, and in that time I think they may well have und ..
- Hot Hands / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainI was late, really late. Another conspiricy, I pretty much missed it. After some very polite arguments, during some wine drinking, of windsurfing needs, musts and schedules verses normal life I almost didn't make it out, ..
- new K4's / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainSomewhere in Britain! Thorpy sent me some large and medium stubbies to try out, but I think well he thinks, he posted them without putting my address on. Think he has had too much speed. Classic! I'm looking forward t ..
- 2012 account open / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainFirst windsurf of the year was pretty special taking all things into account. Not today (as in Tuesday's practical hurricane). Today's wind meant you could only move if you were in a car, you even had to peddle hard to g ..
- Westerlies / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainWesterlies suit the Gower, happy to be home and disappointed to have missed the late autumn and onset of winter I've enjoyed the last couple of days!Good to catch up with the guys, sail Horton and get some great waves an ..
- Avon Beach at first light / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf Britain5.6 metre swell with a 14 second period. Myself and James Cox had the same idea last night, that Avon could put on one of its rare but special days. Problem for me was that little issue known as work. So the only option ..
- You know it's really windy when.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainA north facing dog flap keeps getting blown open in a Southerly wind! add?.. ..
- Shivers Down My Spine / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainLooking ahead on Big Salty towards the next week and every day is "going off", but then look at Friday and apparently it is forecast 45knot gusts, 6.6metre waves and 12.5 second swell. That is not something to look forwa ..
- Too Dark Toooo Windy? / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainImagine having all this wind about and and then not being able to say you got out, how much would it be worth. Or was it even worth going out in the first place. I actually got blown up the cliff as I tried to get down i ..
- Seven days in the sun / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust back from a week's holidays in Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, and one I'd not been to before. As the last holiday with Maria before we become parents (and following so closely from a week in Wales where I ..
- Four Hours on Broad Bench / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainWell, you have to substract the 45 minutes of non planing plodding it took to get up there!! Course Wave Racing Sailing! I think, I that it was probably one of my favourite sessions of the year. Left the house at 8. ..
- Beautiful Surf / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainSome little beauties coming in all along the coast today. I should think the bench at first light would have made for an epic session. Not for me today though, the trials and tribulations of parenthood as a sickness bug ..
- Cream Tea and Cheese anyone? / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainDamn fine return to the water today. Much more wind predicted which meant loads of fun on my Simmer 5.0Black Tip and Mistral Twinser. Today I changed the footstrap config on my waveboard, and it made sooo much differenc ..
- Poll - what do you think? / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainA poll, will this actually work...? Having read Gregg's post and a lot of activity on Board's forum with a lot of assumption going on, I wonder what is really the cause of the publications "paper" demise. I find it hard ..
- Pembrokeshire, a secret spot, and the death of BOARDS / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainI've just returned from a week away in Pembrokeshire, a week which didn't have a very promising forecast, but which turned into probably the best sailing and surfing I've had all year, and culminated in a trip I've longe ..
- Air to Sea Rescue attempt at Kimmeridge / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust got in from a great surf at Kimmeridge. Another mild Novembers day with low sunlight and warm air. Waves were the size where you wouldn't want them any bigger. They got glassier as the day got later. I was with mast ..
- will it be too much or too little / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainSo many questions Is it going to be any good tomorrow, good swell forecast. Kimmeridge could be good, could it be just enough for windsurfing, or too much to mess up paddle boarding? I'm going anyway. Is next week goin ..
- could it.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainMore South Easters on the way, could it actually happen that I manage to get some good waves. Everything seems to be in place but everything already seems to be changing. I'm trying my hardest not to get pinned down to a ..
- The Impossible.. / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainTo get out in the week. I tried two days in a row now and couldn't actually get out in time. Who invented the clocks going back. Stupid, just stupid. Today would have been epic too. Also to add to my wetsuit I now don't ..
- clean as a whistle / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf Britain16 second swell period, well anything over 11 second period is enough for the swell to wrap around Hengistbury Head and provide down the line wave riding at Avon beach. Usually the swell would be bigger if it had more so ..
- Southbourne but not as we know it / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainMust be glocal warming. Southbourne's gone all port tack. I didn't sail as haven't been well all weekend (wuss). But enjoyed watching, and especially the James & Jamie rescue drama when Jamie's kit escaped him on the ..
- Bring This Back! / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainWe need to see more of these, proper tweeeeked. The tenuous link here is the photographer, Olly Wood who's wife Cara just had a baby girl today, huge congratulations. Will Olly get out on the water any time soon though? ..
- Today, Why couldn't be yesterday? / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainSo I managed to get a windsurf in today, but what with kids, work, early nights and general tiredness, trying to get out on the water is like a tunnel with a light in with a lack of an ending. I started work at 8 had two ..
- More Stuff for Sale / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainSome good winds on the way, so make sure you are fully equipped.. 2011 Simmer 4.7 icon. In really good condition as you can see, typical simmer detail, kevlar reinforcement etc. Typical Icons, massive windrange, really ..
- Small but perfectly formed...... / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainLight SE at Llangenith today rounded off a fun couple of weeks. Plenty of sailing, 3 better than usual Gower quality surfs- 4 sails in the last 6 days and a great surf yesterday.....can't complain.Good to wrap it up with ..
- Tiree news / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainJust stealing some stuff here from the BWA site. Well done Proffiteroll, and Andy King too - not bad for the the fuzz. Andy must be loving the starboard tack jumping after all that port tack shenaningans he has to put up ..
- What board do I get..? / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainDo I get the Simmer FSW 85 which has a tri-fin option, or do I just go for the quantum quad 85 and just get on with it! Is the fsw going to be too much of a compromise for my main board? Maybe I should also get the quant ..
- nice little warm up / Windsurf Britain /
Windsurf BritainIt got good today, and the sea is sooo warm! Got to Southbourne, bumped into Timo Mullen who was just leaving, Jamie Hancock was still out, Brolly Wood had just turned up no sign of Coxy.. In brief there were good wave ..
