WAVESession with (Martijn)The Man - Wijk aan Zee 18-06-11

As i havent been wavesailing for a little while, my hopes were on for today.

gopro picture below.

The forecasts was great. SideOn condition and about 7 beaufort all day long.

All morning it was raining, but when i arrived the sun started shining :-) that till the end of the day.

Martijn de Man and Me

You see the Man's Van everywhere in Europe. Need fast transport? Call The Man :)

Martijn here laughing.. not sure why. He also is on Fanatic boards :-P

Shit happens ehh..

My setup for today 4.5sado and sos68.

Martijns setup back there, with the pink elephant in his sail.

As it was 14/15ms up to 18-20ms.. i rigged on a 4.0m2 first.. (too small)
I did had some doubts in the beginning about sailsize. Only in the gusts i was planing, but most of the time i was sailing underpowerd. With the low volume <68l i definately made a wrong choice on sailsize. I tried De Mans equipment aswell. He was on a sado 4.2 and 75L Fanatic customboard with a too big of a fin. He should put an MU fin Xwave underneeth..The 75L custom singlefin from Martijn went quite nice upwind, but it wasnt my fave in the waves. Im too spoiled having my SOS boards. It didnt fell loose as any of my boards. Martijn took my SOS68 for a spin, and got positively surprised about it. I didnt thought he could go out on such a small board.. As he is normally always on bigger boards then i am. The second part of the afternoon from where i changed sails from 4.0 to 4.5m2. i took my Gopro hd cam out to the water. I've made some shots

And filmed some aswell.. But me and film....I cant find the time to edit some.
So for now a bunch of shots, that from todays session.

-Tabletop sequence [not tweaked] click on it, for larger version.

A few waverides.

Jibing on a wave

I also had a little bad luck out there, while rigging the 4.5 i didnt check my masttop myself. Martijn was standing at the top and said it was locked into the mast when i rigged it. Are you sure? Yes he was sure ;o).. My first lap into the sea, between the 2nd and 3th bank.. WHAMMM after a little jump my mast when trough the top of the sail... No damage at all. It just wasnt locked. I had to swim back for about 20 minutes.

Swimming back to shore costed me a lot of energy. Later on i was getting cramp in my arms all the time. So i took it easy afterwards.

Another ride...

I saw the photographer JePeVepe also standing out there all day long with his enormous telelens/camera. Maybe within these days i'll get to see some footage from his lens and point of vieuw.

Stay tuned.

Suits & Fashion

Last month we had several wetsuits coming in for the whole family.
My boy outgrew his old wetsuit which i bought several years ago at Das Boot/dusseldorf. Time for something better, warmer and bigger sized!
Neilpryde Next Generation 3000 4x3mm Size 10, as he's 8 years old, he can use it hopefully the coming 2-3 years. Its now a little bit to big. But those buggers keep on growing :)

Yes, its stretchy enough. Next time it'll be Strand Horst.

Last Month my wife got her very first own Roxy syncro 3x2mm wetsuit.

She hasnt been complaining anymore about the coldwater 8-)

and got myself a nice goodie aswell an O'neill Psychofreak 4.5x3.5 for the colder days.

A superwarm stretchy wetsuit...almost too warm.

For most days in the summer is a shorty or shortarm a bit to chilly but a O'neill psychofreak is simply too hot (i noticed). I finally have now a summer fullsuit aswell.
O'neill PSycho2 ZenZip 3x2mm for the summer/autumn days.

My babygirl doesnt need a new one yet. the NP she has,still fits fine.

Familyday@ Horst 4 june 2011

A wonderfull almost summer day, well its not summer yet. but still! 8-)
temperatures were great. and there was a bit of wind aswell.
We took out the Fanatic Viper and 2.5m2 and 6.6m2 Sado to play with.

My wife was surfing aswell, and had gps-speeds around 10.5kmh max ;o) #soProud.

My kids playing around while my wife is surfing, and me? #onthelookout

My roxy surfbabe cruising.

Ive been surfing later on with my son, that with the 6.6m2. Both on the Viper 190L planing together for a moment. That was cool. Had a speed around 35kmh on that familyboard, no harness/trapeze on.

The Starboard IDO did his work today.

Coming days there's not much wind. We'll just have to wait and see.

Strand Horst 23 degrees.. Another sunny session with the 7.9m2 - 3 june 2011

Ive been busy all day long with al kind of chores in and around the house.
Around 5.30pm i went to the lake for a bit of cruising.
Took just one sail with me, the 7.9m2 AC-1 2K11.

A sunny evening it was, just surfing in my shorts and lycra.

Mellow conditions...

Some stats from gps-speedsurfing.com
session_date vrijdag 3 juni 2011
Spot Wolderwijd - Strand Horst, Netherlands
Board Fanatic Falcon 102, 2010
Zeil Point-7 AC-1 2K11 7.9, 2011
Fin C3 STING 38
Type GPS Navi GT-31

Average speed 52,39 kmh ( 55,38 51,99 51,75 51,73 51,09 )
Max. 2 sec. (software) 56,38 kmh
100 m run 56,01 kmh
250 m run 52,97 kmh
500 m run 48,1 kmh
Nautical mile 34,55 kmh
1 hour 17,89 kmh
Alpha racing 34,49 kmh
distance 35 km
Duur 01:17:00
Windspeed 14 - 21 knots
Wind direction NE ( 270)

Oyeah. Aart V. congratulations with your victory haha Next time will be different ;o)

Tommorow its even hotter. upto 28degrees. Probably going with my family ;o)