Smile spidey....
Spidey after a warm bath
Jeeez-what is going on with the weather?!?If there is one thing that will make a windsurfer/kitesurfer really depressed it'll be the lack of wind that he or she has to enjoy the worlds greatest sports-Yep, i've moaned about it before and I'll moan about it again and we'll probably keep moaning about the lack of wind until we're old, grey and tired and unable to get into our tight little rubber suits!
Lets hope this Summer is going to be super warm and super windy.
Easter has just passed through and the weather has been, well, some what tropical?.... a real welcome after the long cold winter.
It's been 5 weeks already since we returned from our holiday to Soma Bay in Egypt. We scored a cracking deal on an AI basis at the Carribean Hotel. Due to the trouble earlier in the year in Egypt the resort was really quiet with some of the Hotel closed due to the cancellation of numerous Russian flights. The kite spot was also really quiet and uncrowded. We managed 6 out of 7 days of kiteable wind which was a real result. I even managed to get stuck into some un-hooked stuff which we can't do over here due to lack of space and choppy water.
When I got back to Guernsey I was all fired up but my first two sessions were a real reality check. When you're getting perfect conditions to kite in every day it's not until you get
back home that you realise how lucky you were and how difficult it can be back at your home break.
back home that you realise how lucky you were and how difficult it can be back at your home break.
Well as I said earlier the wind hasn't really played ball for a while and seems to be permanently stuck in an Easterly direction. We have had a couple of good swell days and Oly and I have had a few SUP sessions at Perell which were truly memorable but even the swell has disappeared.
On the plus side the Jersey boys were over this weekend and scored a wee bit of wind to enable some long board racing at Ladies Bay. Not really sure how it all went but I do believe that Jersey came out tops as Briggsy had been around to pick up the Channel Island trophy that I had won last year!!
On one final note, Pierre has now got his new look website up and running with some classic photos of our last decent wavesailing session which was way back in February. Check it out at www.gsyphoto.com where you'll find some awesome photos of the boys hitting a few lips.
