Timo Mullen: K Bay.
Black blob swells do not happen that often through the winter, so when I saw this one incoming across the Atlantic I was pretty excited! I had a couple of options planned, Ireland looked like it was going to cop the most of the swell so I had already booked my flight to hopefully share these huge waves with my brother Finn. As the Tuesday grew closer I could see that the wind in Ireland looked like it was going to swing too offshore right when the tide would be perfect so I had to change plans and start looking at closer to home. As luck would have it the same swell was pushing a 10ft @ 18 seconds swell up the English Channel, this is huge for the South Coast of England which would mean Kimmeridge would be cranking, especially with the combination of a NW wind. Ideal really as Kimmeridge is only 20 minutes from my house. The only spanner in the works was that the best wave at Kimmeridge is Broad Bench, a perfect hollow right hander that breaks a lot like Punta Preta would be closed by 9.30am as it is within an Army firing range. This meant our own military precision operation to score some sailing before our curfew! Myself and JC arranged to meet James Cox at 0630 at Kimmeridge this would give us just over two hours sailing hopefully, more than enough in the winter cold