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Rich Carter & Krafty are heading to Camber Sands this weekend

With a decent forecast, mild temperatures for the time of year, and tides looking perfect for classic Little Maui action, the guys are all heading down early to scale Las Dunas and enjoy the conditions.

Camber - started out windy enough to tempt us over the dunes, Krafty with his 3S97 & 5.8m Poison and Rich on his RRD FatboyStyleWave 110 ltr with trusty 5.6m Combat. Just as we got to the waters edge it dropped off ...... bl**dy typical !

Wind was up and down a little, so just enough showed face and given we'd done the hard bit  we were tempted, optimistically, to give it a go. Didn't take us long to figure out that it wasn't windy enough, and it's no fun sailing underpowered at this time of year.

Good to see Ed giving his SX105 and 6.5m a first run out ...... Will was dieting on the whitewater too, going through the initiation process. Rob, Tim & Chris stuck it out playing the gusts but for Krafty, Rich & Allesandro (plus Guy who turned up coincidentally at the moment the wind dropped) there was just nothing for it .... return trip ... over the dunes, where Krafty de-rigged the 3S & Poison, and rigged his Rocket 135Ltd & 7.4m Remedy, Guy rigged his Rocket 125 & a 6.5m, and Rich upped the power on his RRD Fatboy with his trusty 6.9m ... then back over the dunes to go play.

There is something inheriently wrong with sailing bigger kit at Camber, especially at this time of year (well, that's what Rob keeps telling us all). That said, if it'd been one of those 'summer sessions' it would have been great. Quite a decent blasting session for Guy, Rich, Krafty & Allesandro though Krafty claims that he was really struggling ..... reckoning the cold that his missus has been bemoaning for the past few days is filtering through as he had zero energy, ached all over, and sailed like a complete numpty. So much so that the best move he could claim was a nice tack on the inside between the waves.

That and his mind was probably still riding the 3S, and this caught him out a treat, much to Rob's amusement as he sat on the beach. Krfaty had gone right upwind and was doing a bit of a downwinder to rejoin the others, and on a run into the beach he overtook one wave too many and as he dropped down the face it quickly became apparent that it was too steep a drop in on the Rocket 135 (he reckons he'd have made it on the 3S tho) and a trip over the falls was imminent.

Just didn't really come together today ..... but it was a session in January in decent temperatures. Good to catch up with the crew, and nice to see so many keen windsurfers at the beach on a sketchy forecast at this time of year.

FTR - there was still a bit of timber floating about out there, keep your eyes open !

Tim shot some video after giving up on the session from his own POV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdTFeXe39E