Wind Journal for Berend de Boer -- Thursday November 16, 2006 , 5:30p-6:30p -- See All

26th session in 2006
Sailed at Auckland, Mission Bay
Wind from the N (knots)
        lulls: 11
        average: 7
        gusts: 13
Rated a 2 of 10

Board: Starboard Carve 99 2004 Wood
Sail: NP Saber 6.2 2005
Fin: Drake Freeride 320
Suit: XCel 4/3 infinity x-zip.

Bit of a disaster. North is always a bit hard here in Auckland, but Mission Bay and such are North facing so should be good, right? Not according to comments I read later. And indeed, wind wasn't good and I didn't want to get too far away from the beach as I didn't want to spend too much effort getting on the board when I would fall off. So I stayed close, but that wasn't a good decision I think. Just could do some short runs, if I could waterstart. Just not enough wind, and reasonably high waves made this all pretty hard.

In hindsight I should have ventured out further and doing longer runs. I can trust my waterstarts, it's tiring, but just do a few runs and go home.


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