Eight weeks since I last surfed!!! Sure, work has dominated but there has also been a distinct lack of waves on the east coast since that Christmas swell. We'd been looking forward to a long weekend down in 'zance though with Gav & family so surely that would end the drought?

Nah! The gloomy forecast of the last week looked to have put the mockers on that so we'd been forced to postpone this morning. A long way for us to go to watch the effects of full onshore gales we figured; we'll get down west in April instead, and for longer. There was some consolation in that a swell was running down the east coast today and had been since yesterday as Naips took great delight in pointing out ;o) So I decided to catch the first two hours after high tide [noon-ish] at Skeg' by way of softening the earlier disappointment.

This was also the chance to try out some new gloves I'd bought in from Wessex Watersports to see if their lightweight Dry-Gloves could do the business. [They could as it happens-warm and light on the paddle] Not unsurprisingly though it took me some time to get into any kind of rythmn after such a lay-off. It must have been a good 20 minutes or so before I caught my first decent ride in pleasant shoulder high waves. But recent farm sub contract work had done wonders for my fitness levels and I was feeling sharp. This enabled me to get my fair share of fun waves before the effects of the changing [from W - S] and increasing wind effect, which was causing a localised cross swell, eventually brought my session to an end after an hour and a half. With promise of further northerley swell for the weekend, I think I can wait till April after all.
posted by wollocks at 6:46 PM