John Carter
Working from the boat proved to be far trickier than I’d imagined. I’m sure on a nice glassy day with evenly spaced sets draining down the reef it’s no problem shooting here, but throw in 25 knots of wind and two different swells and it was almost impossible to be in the right place at the right time. I’m not sure whether any sailor has ever done a jump before at Cloudbreak, but Philip Koester soon put the record straight throwing a big forward and a couple of decent sized back loops while the wind was strong at the beginning of the session. Surely that has to be a first?
By 5 p.m. all the boys had clocked up a few solid waves and, with sunset looming, we had to navigate the reef passes before it was too dark to make it back to Plantation.