George Shillito – “As we arrived at the small beach, we were presented with a light 6-8 knot breeze funnelling down the estuary. This in itself felt strange. With almost 60 years of windsurfing experience between us, we were all used to scouring Windguru for the ominous dark hues that signified the arrival of an imminent low pressure. Instead, we now found ourselves looking out over a calm sea disturbed only by the lightest of southwesterly breezes. What’s more, we were looking forward to it. No more than that, it felt like we were discovering windsurfing all over again.
With the evening and tide racing in, we slung the boards on our backs and grabbed our rigs, our kit bags, plus a six-pack of beer for good measure and headed to the beach. As we unpacked, inflated the boards and rigged up, it occurred to us how easy it would be to do this just about anywhere in the world! The whole process took less than ten minutes, we were rigged and we were ready to go.”