We are in the grip of the strongest La Nina in 30 years and here in Oz the wind has been c..p!!!. But it could be worse.






Jocelyn De Souza, our young KA Team rider from France, just sent us this photo from his local beach.
I know I have been tempted to go out in rubbish conditions when my new sails have just arrived, but I think this is maybe taking it to extremes!!!

Its the same in the UK.
One week of cold north/north easterlies. 4 Days of freezing below zero weather here on the south coast.
Yesterday the south westerlies started again - Overnight - FFS!
They died before sunrise. Then came back for two hours after sunset!

Forecast for rest of december is cold north east winds again - hopefully too soon to predict the end of the month, but pretty certain it will be like that over the next week at least.
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I am (perhaps naively) hoping that this early winter for us will bring some good weather from Jan 1st when I start my 1000 mile challenge for charity.

It would be more fun to have some snow rather than the rain and humid weather we currently have.

Pretty amazing to see solid settled seaside snow in France. It must be absolutely frozen in continental Europe

mr love said...

We are in the grip of the strongest La Nina in 30 years and here in Oz the wind has been c..p!!!. But it could be worse.






Jocelyn De Souza, our young KA Team rider from France, just sent us this photo from his local beach.
I know I have been tempted to go out in rubbish conditions when my new sails have just arrived, but I think this is maybe taking it to extremes!!!

Here the NE have been better than normal! Only prob is the rain and cloud can stuff them up..

Nebbian said.. "Boardies over the wettie... what was he thinking!"

He probably just wanted to keep the boys warm

Yes it worked, post about the rubbish wind we are having and we get a brilliant Easterly. Was a great sail, but retired hurt. Think it might be Xray time tommorrow, I suspect a cracked rib or 2, bugger!!! I hope not.

Actually where i sail it's not so much the body temperature that limits the sailing, modern wetsuits are really good. But once you have -20 -30 C windchill the board and boom freezes over, so Jibing is impossible because the board is a skating rink and you can't really hold on to the boom, on the plus side it makes you really commit to the lines and learn to quickly get into the straps.
My local spot just froze over, so sad Most likely it will last until march

mr love said...

The Xray showed 2 busted ribs, clean through, bugger!!!!!!!thats me out till Xmas.

Hey this Morphine is good stuff!!!

Hey Martin,
Doesn't get much worse than that Hope you recover soon and don't laugh too much.