wind picked up blowing gusts of 110 kph straight out to sea.
Gust blew me off the board and my kit was travelling away from me quicker than i could swim and retreive it managed to get to it (by this time i was way out past the protection on the land.
Tried to water start but everytime i got the sail up it felt like a cannon ball hit it from multiple directions
Where i was there was no help. The sky was black and was raining so hard i lost site of land and just had visability of a 20 metre raduis around me.(tunnel vision)
my 5mtr sail in the depowered position was pulling the board up and down out of the water.! hand clung onto the rope underneath the marker with one hand one on the back footstraps on the board.
I managed to wrap my legs around the rope and detach the sail boom and mast watching it do cartwheels straight out to sea.
spent hour and a half clinging for my life untill front passed and had there been no marker there i would of perrished.
When the front passed i remember the sun coming toward me protruding thru the black clouds.;-)





Alot goes through your mind when you in these situations....