12 P.M.
JC: Roy arrives to check out the action and I decide to deploy him as a second shooter while Timo once again sails alone in the firing conditions. All the while the swell is building with solid logo high and occasional mast high sets now marching into the bay.
12:30 P.M.
TIMO: Severne had made me a new quad this year and when we designed it we had epic wave sailing breaks around the world in mind! Well in my mind these breaks were in Scotland and Ireland so I’ve been frothing to see if what looked good in a shaping bay looked just as good on the wave face. Now was my chance to find out, so I swapped boards to give my Mako Quad its Celtic christening. The conditions really stated to turn on, solid sets were now offloading on the point setting up for the biggest aerial sections and some full speed power hacks, yup this board was definitely at home in Lewis. I lost count of the number of waves I caught, maybe 60-70 waves, with nobody else on the water and heaps of wind I was literally catching waves every 2-3 minutes, contrast that to my previous two weeks in Mauritius where my wave count was every 20-30 minutes with a friendly kitesurfer for company on every wave! The downside, if there can be one, is that I was literally in pieces after a few hours. When you start to get tired and make mistakes then it is always best to stop and fortunately a massive bank of cloud gave me that excuse before I had to admit defeat!