Very nice wind was promised for today (execpt for the direction of the wind which was NW-NNW... land wind which causes lot of turbulance in the beach), so Simo and I had agreed over the weekend to go and start the season on Monday. This we did.
After lots of turbulances when heading to the open channel where the wind was at max, we had some great but very close to edge planing.
I was flat out after some time - the wind was extreme and change directions in big bursts. Too extreme to my current skills and 7m2 sail.... plus my incredible bad physical condition :o( We both went back to beach to rest and drink. For a few moments I thought this was it for me, but the stupidity and sense of "immortality" won, and we headed back.
The wind twisted sail like hell and I did not have guts to go more downwind. Both us went ashore on the other side to rest again. After some time we headed back. Or actually Simo headed back - I dropped off with hardening twisting wind right in the middle of the channel, and simply did not managed any more to get the board going well without dropping again. Run out of energy, and that was it ... could do anything else except to sit on a board and try to recover. Failed in all tries to get going again.
Finally I saw a Buster boat, and luckily they saw me waving at them. And the guys came to rescue me - throw me a rope and took me to next island where I packed my gear. We lifted the gear to the boat, and they took to home beach. Thanks a lot two gentlemen fishing Baltic Herring ! Thanks Simo for looking after !
Well, just bursty high wind and sail size are just lame excuses - root cause is my bad physical condition. This was a wake up call - start excersing again !
3 comments:
This just proves that you shouldn´t have hobbies that reveal your physical condition.
that is indeed a comfy way of looking this sad episode ;o)
...and how's your left leg's kaasujalka (gaspedal?) muscle project doing ;o) ?
right leg that is...
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