RUARAIDH SOMERVILLE – 1ST YOUTH
I’ve been coming to Tiree my whole life and the Wave Classic is something you just can’t miss. It took three hours by car from my home to Oban, we stayed overnight and I didn’t sleep a wink as I was so psyched to be windsurfing the next day! The event had such a great feel this year because there were so many people there. Getting to meet Adam and Marc and the other pros was so cool, and to sail with them was even better.
The howling day when the pros were at Crossapol I almost lost my head. The youth camp was at Gott Bay and there were no waves so we were doing some freestyle. I threw a Vulcan right in front of Theo, one of the other boys, and fell in. His board blasted straight over me and his fin was inches from my head. Definitely not a crash I would like to repeat and luckily I was wearing a helmet!