Aydlett 11/7/2010

5.3/86. N 25-30 Gusty. Contos, Jack, Billy, Chad, Chuck Rhodes. Best session yet at Aydlett with lots o' ramps and tons o' air. 4/3 full with Etan boots (1st session with these). 53F. Hands were OK, but much colder and would need gloves. Water in the high 50's. Need to order some padding for the Acid.

Ted's Visit and Bachelor Weekend

Ted arrived on Thursday night (Plastic's birthday) after we both drove through the remnants of Nicole, Ted getting the worst of the weather. Closed down Cantina. Met Rob for breakfast at Charlies, then sailed at Aeries (N 5.3/Acid) for several hours with Jack and Carl. Following cheeseburgers we then shot over to first landing and sailed (N 6.2/101). Tango was experiencing failure to launch, Raav and I sailed out past Cape Henry for some fantastic jumping and wave riding, head high ramps and waves, along with dolphins and a tremendous smack to my balls on a mid-air bail out. Almost passed out. Sailed back to first landing and Raav scurried home while Contos lumbered out and sailed with the now successfully launched Tango for another hour of 6.0 fun swell sailing immediately in front of the launch site. Plastic cooked dinner and we had the fire department called when Huck thought our London Broil was a fire in the Temple.
Saturday was a formula day with Chad contributing a rig to me and Kashy a board. Kashy was holding a regatta a lots of local sailors and visitors were there including Contos, Hooper and others. Formula beckons.
Drank our faces off all night. Plastic, Pat, Ted, Rob, Jack, Contos. Everyone home safe.

9/27/10 Buckroe

SE 20 101/6.2. Raav. Short (1 hour) but sweet session. Ended up in the Daily Press. Knight missed it.

Here is what was in the Daily Press:






Rob Spurgeon takes to the air on a wave off of Buckroe Beach Monday as Spurgeon and fellow surfer Chris Lewis both of Norfolk enjoyed the stiff wind off off of Buckroe Beach Monday.






Chris Lewis and Rob Spurgeon both of Norfolk pass each other off of Buckroe Beach Monday as the two windsurfers took advantage of brisk winds Monday.

9/26/10 Buckroe

N 20. 6.2/101. Pretty fun 2 hour session with Derek. Some nice turns and airs way out in the channel. No-one else showed. Still a little hung over from Spruill party.

Kashy's 8/15/10

7.2/102. Kashy, Contos, Javier, Glenn, Coyne, Quinn. SE 18. After walking 9 with Contos and shooting better than I ever had before, we slipped into Kashy's for a quasi surprise thermal. Flattish but nice. Sailed fastish with Dave as he was testing fins. Sailed his slalom board, and no shit he's fast, it's EASY.

Kashy-Cam at York Point, August 15, 2010 from Javier Garriz on Vimeo.

Cape Cod 7/26-7/31/10

The Cape delivers again. Despite Great White sightings off Chatham, 3 days of 6.0/102 and 1 day of Acid/5.0. Fun. 2 sessions at West Dennis, 2 in Eastham. Lets face it, the Acid rips. The 101 really performed well too. The 2 sessions at West Dennis really went well, especially at the rock. The breaking waves on the inside of the rock created really nice jibe zones, and when it was 5.0, really nice rides. A few nice airs, ramps not fantastic. Still fun, I feel I've got some of my sailing mojo back. Really ready for a bug jumping day somewhere. Fall is coming. Dates sailed: 7/27, 7/28, 7/29.

6/27/10 Avon

Rode to Avon with Carl and Raav. Met Contos, Jack, Pete & Kim. Wind came up to 6.0 around 3 and we sailed at the Hole. Long run to a smallish but fun reef, Contos eating it HARD on the way out, running aground at full speed. 6.2/101. SW 20. Rode Raav's new Quatro FSW and Pete's 90L Real Wind. Neither is for me. I still need a smaller weed fin for the 101. Also need to get the footstraps back to the inboard positions where they belong.

6/12/10 Willoughby

10-20 S/SW. 7.2/150L Mistral Explosion. Board is slow but comfortable, did make me think that a board of that size might have its place. Jack was there to have a few Corona after the session at that bar at the marina. This was the night of Beyond the Lighted Stage.

6/6/10 Messick Point

Billy, Rob Solly, Contos, Jack, Lam, Trumbolt, 5 or 6 others. SW 20-35. Fun. Sailed 101/6.2 for a while then switched to Acid. Weed fins. Wish I had smaller fins for the 101 so I could have sailed it with the 5.3. Sailed all day, very tired. Actually was the second time at Messick, the first that I drove there. Will go there again for the decent chop and that O-So-Sweet Jibatorium on the south side.

5/29/10 Corolla

Dialed in session on the sound. 101/7.2. Nice SW 15-20. Should have rigged to 6.0 but left the 7 up. Fun.

5/8/10 Rodanthe

Road trip with Contos. SW 30-35 4.4/74. Fun but too many weeds even for the Wardog. Had to go with the too-big Surfgrass on the 74 and this made the board a little out of control. Ate shit hard and slammed my thigh into the mast. Still hurts badly on 2 days later as I write this. Contos, Billy, Steve N., Chad, Lisa, Lam, a few others. Sailed Contos' AHD wave board and will be selling my RW 74 as soon as I get around to it. Forgot about GoPro.

4/30/10 Kashy's

Sailed Formula gear for the first time. Lots of work. Will sail again if the opportunity presents itself. I think that the racing aspect of that type of sailing is what keeps it alive, the gear is cumbersome and the sailing is anything but relaxing. The boards do perform in light winds so I can see some advantages. In Corolla the next day I watched Pat blast along, albeit straight downwind with a 16m kite. That also holds some interest as well. No more sailing for me this weekend even though it was windy. Plastic's arrival trumped windsurfing.

Corolla & Jockey's 4/25/10

First session of 2010 and first session with the GoPro! Some footage below. Hung over from dinner with LJM, Rob, I mean Raav, Sybil, Contos (oh yeah), Sooz, Jack, Nikki, Dave later. Very gusty all day, but the first session of the year was better than nothing. Sailed Corolla in the AM and met Carl at Jockey's after lunch. Gusty there as well. Sailed all gear in 1 day.