17 September 2022
Nice day at sea
Prediction was not much better than yesterday. NNW 25 to 40 knots and lots of rain. On arrival there was still rain, but after 12:00 it would be dry.
Started with the same set as yesterday, but with a size smaller center vin:
Banzai 4.7 with Goya One 95 and MFC 19/11cm fins
Directly planing from the beach. Water clearly calmer than yesterday, but many more surfers on the water. Nice runs to the other side of the bay, there in front of the beach nice waves to jump, then jibe and back. In front of the water inlet dams there seemed to be beautiful waves, but they often turned out to be just not the right direction or not steep enough.
Here and there a nice wave for wave riding, usually a single back-side hit, occasionally multiple hits. 1 attempt at front-side and it also went well: quite high wave, nicely steep and wide. In the middle and on the other side of the bay almost always find a wave to jump with right foot in front: my direction! Couple of times really nice high floaty jump.
It was a lot better today than it was yesterday. Water still a very choppy and chaos, but that is actually always when the wind is not completely north.
Only a one short shower, quite a bit of sun and wind quite stable.
Brouwersdam Zuid
Present: Marius (SurfinTwin), Menno (flappie)12:00 | 3.5 hour | Wind: W/NW |
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Board: | Goya One 3 Pro 95 - MFC TF RTM 19cm/MFC TF 2x11cm | |
Sail: | Goya Banzai Pro 4.7 - Goya 90% 370 - AL360 E3 Carbon 160-220 | |
Set worked well, waveriding good, jumping good. Water was chaos chop, but control enough. Only in the wind holes I needed a little more effort to get upwind. Even tried front-side waveriding once: successful. |