After a few days of nearly-windless week, Saturday surprised us with the NE monsoon storm! The strongest & windiest I have seen in a while. It was all dark & cloudy, white caps all over the place, the trees being swayed around heavily, the sand flies off to your face, and nobody dares wearing a skirt.
Wind strength was approximately 25knots to blazing 30 knots! I went out earlier on a 7.4m, then sized down to 6.5m. Still, I was way overpowered, and can barely hold to the sail. The board just willingly take off whenever it hits the chop. In 30 knots, everything just seem not right! Good thing was I managed to nail the waterstart a few dozen times. Yippie!
There are only two windsurfers out that day, George & me. And there were also a few kitesurfers at Duta Village.
In the word of George Warren,
“So today it blew 25-30 knots for a few hours.
A typical Nov/Dec/Jan day with stormy skies and white caps everywhere.
The windiest day I’ve seen this monsoon. Epic.
The danglers rigged up enough kites to power a small tanker and then didnt know which one to use. They eventually settled on the smallest !
I used a 6.5 and was maxed out with a girly hairdressers board (all slim and young and so on) RS60.
So, only me and another lone sailor further North…….
Come to Kuantan before the fat lady sings !”
So there you have it children, NE Monsoon wind is still blowing and I’m positive to say, it’ll keep on blowing until the late of March. Plan out your journey and you may be well served!
Earlier that day…
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