If this is windsurfing you wouldn't do it !!! Just went to Alton as it was the only local option this time of year and to get a session in January ! We had just about everything today it started with a balmy 14 degrees , westerly the north of west with winds of next to nothing gusting to 49 kts !!!! we had driving rain then sunny periods !!!! Mate Neil Hurrell went with 5.7 and I took a chance with 6.4 which was way over in the gusts and way under in the lulls :( and the wind was very very gusty :( As the water is so'ooooooooooooooooooooo cold you do anything so not to fall in, so I made the mistake of sailing into the windshadow on the far bank and then had a job to get off the bank :( I peaked at 29.97 just missing 30 kts :( and that was on the bumpy squally, bumpy run when you had a job to see where you were going !! Neil had a good morning sailing but Chris Phillips hurt his fingers in the big gusts - finger crossed (no pun intended ! ) that they are not broken!!!