East Coast Windsurfing Festival

A beautiful weekend for both days festival though I only made it Sunday due to other commitments Saturday. The water and air were so warm many had no wetsuit. This is a very incomplete account of the event as it's late.

Sunday, there was good wind, starting at 7am many got out for 5.0 conditions those in the area.  I got on the road at 8am as I had gig the night and played 4 bass for hours and got to bed at 1:30am and a few craft beers (which are stronger than regular beer)!   I was very tired and didn’t even eat on the trip up as I was not hungry.  I arrived felt rushed ended up on the water just in time to race at 10:30!  Boom was too high, I was not really awake and I feel like 5 times finishing bottom 3.

I missed the second heat as I was so tired from uphauling or water starting the big 7.0m sail.  

I then went to sign in and wasn’t on the sign in so had to go back for cash and missed the GPS racing (and still not fully awake). Finally enrolled I did the third heat after lunch and got dead last. After the race I came in so late when I saw Steve on shore he said "you were racing were you", then Martin said "he just made it look like he wasn't racing". I went back out and when I looked down and saw massive kelp on my fin (see Myles below there was a bit of seaweed in the water). So perhaps my straight 42cm race fin had seaweed for the race. Hard to say.ace Anyhow, I cleared it off then went out and sailed fully planing on my 7.0 Severne Reflex III #45 and 120 Angulo Release for an hour or so.

So being competitive I was not pleased but it was a beautiful event and a lot of fun as you have more time to chat with other windsurfers and  I won a belt at the raffle. So how to improve 1 ) get weed fin 3) don't drink night before (though the house party is always the same 3rd Saturday of September so will likely still have this gig and soccer to coach and miss Saturday - though as my friend Bob W. says "these are good problems to have").