WHEN HARRY MET BUBBLE ANDY CHAMBERS “It’s pretty hard to get the all the stars to align for a windsurfing photoshoot in the UK! JC had wanted to do this for ages and so scoring a day when we were both in the UK at the same time, a boat, wind and sun was quite tricky! We had a pretty strong North Westerly breeze blowing which meant most of the south Coast was pretty offshore. However, this direction worked out pretty perfect for sailing around Old Harry. It only took about 10 minutes to get to Studland Bay which was nice and sheltered from the wind. We could see it was pretty windy out by Old Harry so I rigged the smallest free ride gear I had which was a Neil Pryde Ryde 6.5 and a JP Magic Ride 104. Rigging up free ride gear on a small boat was harder than I thought it would be! At one point the top of the sail got caught in the water which then caused the sail to power up and fly out of the boat! Amazingly the spare mast extension got hooked in the bottom of the uphaul as it all flew out of the boat! I then piled into the sea with the board and finished off rigging in the water! Luckily the extension was still hooked in the uphaul! The boat drove out to Old Harry whilst I drifted into the wind line and then started reaching downwind to join them. As I sailed closer I could see how windy and choppy it was! It was bloody howling! I had never sailed out to Old Harry before and seeing it so close up was pretty spectacular. The water was turquoise blue and really clear with lots of sea birds on the beach.
“ The water was turquoise blue and really clear with lots of sea birds on the beach. For a moment it definitely felt like I was windsurfing somewhere abroad ” Andy Chambers