CAUTION
Obviously when the Met Office names a storm they are doing it for a reason. The original idea of ‘naming’ was to increase public awareness of severe weather and to take the appropriate action to avoid danger and disruption. When the wind is blowing 90-100 mph, storms are not to be messed with. As windsurfers we obviously want to go out and challenge Mother Nature when conditions are firing, but at the same time there is a time and place to do so. Overnight Eleanor’s power brought down a forty foot stone wall section of Portreath Harbour, overturned cars, shut down major bridges and caused power cuts to thousands of homes. In Cornwall tonnes of sand were shifted, creating new landscapes, with Crantock beach suffering from extreme erosion and undermining. So whilst heading out in the wildest conditions and most severe waves is not advised, at the same time there are plenty of spots where the waves wrap into and that’s where the fun can be had.
