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Quite a challenging session together with Anthony. Totally unexpected forecast: I planned to do a family surf today with the kids (10 kts), but this morning the windmills in our garden were turning fast so changed my plans. When arriving at the spot I saw already from the train track that the foam of the waves were clearly visible. That means a) there was at least some wind from the good direction and b) this will not be a flat speedspot today....

Anthony arrived almost simultaneouly and we both decided to give it a try on our slalom board. Never flew so fast over waves of sometimes 3ft tall. You couldn't do a singe run with your fin in the water all the time... Did most runs unhooked and crashed quite more then a few times while being airborne.

Found it hard sometimes to keep the 6.3 in control on the large slalom board. Never sailed that combo (always used 7 or 7.8 on that board), so that must be the cause. When derigging I saw that I missed one boom clip (!!) and the other one was almost completely broken. Just stopped in time wink.  Went to the surf shops in Leucate to look for some spare clip. At Chinook (loft dealer) they didn't had the loft boom clips. At the Naish center they had the old ones (pins were wider), but we managed to get 2 working sets assembled (took us an hour or so).

We waited for better conditions but it became even worse. Best conditions were north of the water pump today. But even there you couldn't even find a little spot to gybe without bouncing in the air...

Didn't want to take too much risks as it became more and more insane, so called it a day ard 2pm and hoping for better conditions wednesday and/or thuesday. Really unlucky this 2 weeks so far. Hope to use at least one day my F51 (hopefully flat and not too much wind next time).
 

Still enjoyed this challenging session with only 2 speedsurfers... Happy with today results in these freaky conditions. Had my go pro running, so I hope that the conditions are clearly visible...La Franqui how it shouldn't be.

Wave sailing with Benjamin.. Tricky conditions at LF not really a speed spot today. first time I have used the JP 54 with the 7.1 and I think with the wind being quite square the Talon 28cm may have been a bit too small, but that's the only fin I had with me so had to go with that. It didn't feel great though! Well done Benjamin with your speeds today.
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