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SPOOKY MEXICOS: CORNWALL HALLOWEEN SESSION!

Steve Thorp and Matt Woolgar reflect on what they reckon was the first proper wave-sailing session of the season at Mexicos. With a ‘Pumking’ swell brewing and eerie SSW winds in the forecast, the crew finally scored their first real taste of winter…and fittingly, it all came together on Halloween!

Photos: Steve Thorp and Matt Woolgar

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Steve Thorp: “Spookily it felt like the wave sailing season finally kicked off on Friday 31^st… Halloween! We’d had a few splutters through October but nothing to get really excited about. We all knew that this day had to be on though, with a 10ft and 28mph SSW forecast. 

That said we rocked up to Gwithian only to be disappointed as the waves didn’t have much shape. A quick look up the coast revealed more hollow and peeling conveyer belts, so we relocated at Sandy Acres and rigged our 4.2’s just as the sun started to peak out. Ben was already out further upwind, so I got some great shots of him and Matt before hitting the water.

A pretty sweet session was had! It was one of those where getting a proper aerial was almost impossible (the crests would loom up menacingly tempting you in, only to back off or crumble) but it was a great day for turns!  It looks like we’re due a run of great conditions this week so hopefully some air sections are coming our way!”

Matt Woolgar. “After a message from ‘Chucky’ (Ian Ross) we checked Gwithian and watched him throw down a tidy forward on the run out!

The conditions looked funky with no waves really running down the line so we headed further up to Mexicos. That felt like the first real DTL session for me this season. I was stacked on my 4.2m! ‘Thorpy’ stayed up on land shooting to start with and I sailed a peak to myself which was a bonus.

There were some solid sets but easy enough to pick your way out! It was not always the easiest to get the timing right as they seemed to be holding back but felt good to be racing down the line and finding a few sections. Afterwards it was time to switch up, I went behind the lens and caught ‘Thorpy’ ripping into a few sections as well as capturing some of the action going down a few peaks further up.

I finally got rigged up for round two and went up a sail size and the waves actually improved and cleaned up as they started to hollow out on the drop! That was a solid day at the beach! Now we are all fired up for more!”