Cold wintersession @ Strand Horst 07 march 2012

In the afternoon i got some time to go out windsurfing at Horst.

Although it wasnt freezing, it probably was one of the coldest surfsessions from the last few months.
5 degrees watertemperature and 5 degrees outside, cloudy and raining non stop. Used combo:

AB+59, 7.2 m2 AC1 2K11, Slingshot 25cm that because of the minimal waterdepth.

Windspeeds SSW direction and about 6 beaufort max.

I had a distance about 45 kilometres. Mostly of my 10sec runs were around 59-60 km/h, with a topspeed of 63,9 km/h.

Average speeds:
59 kmh ( 60,96 60,71 59,33 58,22 55,76 )
Max. 2 sec. (software)
63,74 kmh
100 m run
63,08 kmh
250 m run
59,45 kmh
500 m run
57,26 kmh
Nautische mijl
42,88 kmh
1 uur
20,18 kmh
Alpha racing
29,96 kmh
Afstand
44 km
Duur
01:18:00

the first time i took my dakine waterman backpack with me on the water.. how fun is that! Being away on the water for hours, that with 2 liters of drinkingwater on my back. I been drinking all the time while surfing ;o) when my drinking supply got due, i got off the water aswell.
I have been sailing also with a pair of handgloves on; Camaroo titanium modetec 0.5mm. I must say from all the neoprene handgloves ive had in the past... this would be the ones that works out best. BUT they werent as warm as the regular ones. For me, it was still quite hard to hold on the boom with gloves on, but acceptable. It was one of the reasons that in my runs i didnt had enough grip to hold on and didnt get the speeds i wanted. Later when i put off the gloves my speeds straight away went up with 5kmh. At the end my lowerarms and fingers were getting crampy.

Packed my car as i normally do lol.. cause of the rain.

i just wanted to get out of there ASAP. Drove home in my wetsuit..as there a hot shower was waiting.

Supping with my boy 3-3-2012

Today my son and I went Supping for a few hours. I told him.. the water was really cold and try not to fall in for fun. Luckily he didnt fell in and was still dry when we finished our little trip. im proud of him having a good balance on the board. A few impressionshots of todays supsession.

and now lets go SUPPING!

we paddled to the island the zegge

enough playtime... time to paddle back to shore!

Up to the next SUPsession

Cold Wintersession @ wijkiki 18 february 2012

As the lakes were still frozen and i had to be home around 12:30pm (celebrating my 3yr old daughters birthday and celebrating my own 34yr old birthday) i went for a short early morning session.

When i arrived noone was out there. Shit.

hmmms.. I went anyway, although planned not go to far out and not do any crazy stuff sailing on my own. First time this year being on the water. Didnt got washed or anything. Im glad, it was to damn cold for swimsessions. Watertemperature is still about 2.5/3.0 degrees celsius.

I had 4 layers on my body..2 neoprene shirts, then a shorty and over that my oneill psychofreak 4.5/3.5 combined with a neoprene cap. As always, only had frozen hands.

At the end i had some issues with my harnass which got teared all of a sudden.

On armstrength i had to survive back to shore. i was allready tired and slightly overpowerd. Luckily managed to get back. Walked the walk and Got my things packed.

while packing my car 2 other people arrived and were giving it a try.

Drove home asap to be home in time for my own/ daughters b'dayparty. My wife would of killed me when 35 people were coming and i wasnt there ;-))

Cruise-ship

The other day i picked up a 123L boat!

Its the biggest board in my quiver (next to my SUP Starboard elements 9,8" 148L) and the only windsurfboard i have that actually floats.

this board completes my raceboard collection. AB+46(63L), AB+54(78L), AB+59(95L).. im skipping the 100-110Liter range this time and straight onto 123L. Easy cruising, more float, quicker planing = more fun on the water in low wind conditions.

lenght 238cm width 75cm volume 123L

I'm planning to do a few long distances with this board.. probably a few sessions from 100-200 upto 300 kilometres coming spring/summer. Lakes are still frozen at the time. We'll have to wait it out i guess