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Windsurfing Picture Gallery 2005
Freestyle in low wind, Tony C' Carving a Gybe, Iain Hunter 2 day Clinic at Halifax,
Calshot RYA Residential, Halifax in the snow, Boat Show Indoor PWA/UKWA
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| Halifax,
November 27th, very, very cold, wind-chill at less than 5 degrees,
pictures speak for themselves... |
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| Halifax,
October, Freestyle Session |
| Connor
and Sam Neal arrived at Halifax for a Freestyle session, but had to wait
for the fog to clear. Gecko Flaka's were the move of the day... |
Connor
windsurfing 'Ghost'
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Sam and Connor setting off |
Sam with
a very sound Gecko Flacka
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Connor mid turn |
starting
the move
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lifting the tail |
easy...
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| Halifax early
July learning freestyle |
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The light
winds gave the opportunity to learn one-handed tacks and |
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| Tony C at
Halifax on 13th June carving a gybe... |
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Iain Hunter of South
Coast Windsurfing - 2 day clinic |
| April 16th & 17th,
Halifax Sailing Club and a 2 day windsurfing clinic run by Iain Hunter of
South Coast Windsurfing
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Given the sprinkling of
snow it was decided to kick off day 1 with some theory in the (only)
slightly warmer club house
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scoop, don't flip... |
Captive audience |
action replay during
the break
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Saturday night and an
interesting meal in the local...
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...the noisy table! |
| Sunday and
an early start, snow almost gone, a bit of sun and no icebergs so the
usual rigging discussions begin
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Iain, Steve, Trevor and
Tony, only slightly chilled after the first couple of hours
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Carl |
Tony, Joff,
Iain and Trevor
After an intense 2 days on and off the water the
conversations continue |
The Team photograph |
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weekend was a huge success with enough time to cover most of the subjects
the aspiring intermediate needs to know. The 2 day format ensured that the
usual Windsurfing Clinic 'curse' of no wind was cheated (on this occasion)
and that we all got individual tuition as well as learning as a group.
Iain comes highly recommended by the Halifax Crew
and can be contacted at info@southcoastwindsurfing.wanadoo.co.uk |
| RYA
residential race training course for Youths and Juniors at Calshot |
Easter at Calshot Activity Centre for the RYA
residential windsurfing course for race training |
After 6 hours
travelling down from the North - waiting for registration
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Last race of the week, in a force 1, struggling
upwind in the 5.5 metre fleet |
Past the finishing
line!
A great week, with not only windsurfing, but
snowboarding and climbing to make it fantastic |
GBR678: Those warm spring winds arrived 19th
March, unfortunately they were rather 'light'. This is my brother GBR679
back windsurfing |
Techno Race at Halifax,
293 OD versus Formula 170
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gybing was slooooow |
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The next day it got a
bit windier, so out with the Techno 170 Formula board... |
The clouds kept coming in, sometimes you could only see
10 metres in front of yourself |
the flatter the board
the faster it went
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...learning to carve gybe a Formula board... |
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March the 12th, Force 3/4, wind
chill at around minus 7 Centigrade :- surely the winter season must end
and the warm spring winds would arrive soon |
GBR678 - jumping my dads Techno 66 Pro |
Naish Boxer 5 metre
sail delivering plenty of controlled power
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| Halifax Sailing
Club: The last 2 weekends of February and early March.
There were some huge challenges facing the
dedicated windsurfer |
Getting to the top gate of the club was tough
enough |
The Land rover
eventually made it to the clubhouse on day two, although getting back out
to the road was 'fun'
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The rigging area was lightly sprinkled with
snow... |
...the launch area required an icebreaker, and as
we didn't have one we turned to the snow... |
...the windswept slopes around the reservoir turned out to have some
use |
GBR678: First attempts
on a snowboard
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UKWA
and PWA Indoor at the Boat show in London, January 2005
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These are the slopes that the windsurfers go down
to start the heat, from 0 to Force 6 in 3 metres
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As the show began, all
the competitors lined up and Peter hart introduced them.
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you can see how flat and calm the water was
before they started up the fans
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Swifty in the freestyle sailing switch stance
before he flicks the board around
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Daida Ruano-Moreno in
the freestyle event
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Josh Angulo in the water on the gybe - very few
sailors didn't fall in as the pool was so narrow
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Ricardo Campello hot on
the heals of Nick Dempsey, before he won the race
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Mega battle between Cribb and Proffit, this was
really good non-stop racing
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The ramp for the jumps, which seemed very close
to the fence
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As there was only about
3 metres depth of water it was best to 'bomb' if you came off. This is
Alex Mussolini
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