Another South Wind session

Again a windsurf session with South wind in front of Riactiva. No pictures as there was no one else around. (Where are the good windsurfers from the area?)

The condition were quite good: tide raising, so water flowing South; wind (quite gusty) pushing us North. Easy to start planing early and then it was just as easy to throw so jumps in the tide waves.

Using my 90 l board was really fun. It's so different from the big ON 140 l that I was used to. At the same time all the moves are quite harder. Jibes are ok but tacks and heli tacks are really hard. It's probably caused by the board having a lot less floating on the nose (it's an old slalom shape) than the overall smaller volume.

On a bad note the wind forecast is just bad. No wind for as long as the forecast go. No windsurf in the next days. Even worse is that starting form Sunday it seems that there will be wind coming to Tarifa. Exactly when I cannot go there no more. That's just plain bad luck for me.

New Move!

There's a new freestyle move: Mojito. It looks plain wicked. Love this low jumps tricks. I wonder if I'll ever managed to even do a Speed Loop.

South, stormy, Wind

At last some wind... Not a wonderful one, but enough to go and enjoy a bit of Ria de Aveiro.

Yesterday the weather was heavy with the threat of rain (which latter did come) and humidity (22 °C feeling more like 28 °C). The wind was the blowing from the South to South-West at 7.2 m/s (~14 knots) with gusts of 12.3 m/s (~24 knots) when I got inside. Later it got a bit stronger (or should I say less week).

As usual with such wind (at least for me) you spend more time trying to start planing than actually planing. Even if a did take a big board (140 L) and a big sail (6.9 m²).

Not that I'm complaining... I am on vacation and I was plaining to go to Tarifa but the wind forecast made me change my mind and I'm staying in Portugal.

It was actually very good to be inside the water again, feeling the wind and the water. It's incredible how much I miss this feeling when I don't windsurf for some days... and it's been two and a half weeks from the last windsurfing session.

As a side note: I might be changing jobs and moving to a city that is a 40 Km form the Ocean. It's a really hard decision and with everything evaluated there is no clear winner. Oh well... let's see what I can find more about my current employee company and my potential next job.