ROUND TWO
With slightly less swell forecast for the following day we’d settled back into the hotel for a few more ‘Rattlers’ and ales in celebration of scoring this big wave session. But the next morning, as we were contentedly tucking into our Full English breakfast at the hotel we received a text from Steve Thorp simply reading ‘Coming out to play?’ Oh lord, knowing Thorpy it simply had to mean the Cribbar was on again. Today the weather was far more unwelcoming and gloomy, but up at the car park Steve was already rigging, claiming there were a few sets that he simply could not let go unridden. We all headed up the hill to check out if it was back on and this time round, Neal was keen to kite the Cribbar along with his mate Lee ‘Pasty’ Harvey. Also on deck, Jan Sleigh was keen to head out, while Ian Black was also scrambling his kit together to join in the on the action. As soon as Thorpy was out there it was obvious, there were still some mast-and-a-half-high bombs to be scored. Once we’d all witnessed him drop down a bomb set and set his rail into the bottom turn, a rigging frenzy ensued from the rest of the crew to head out before the wind switched from southerly to south west as forecast.