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    BIG WEDNESDAY: K-BAY REDEMPTION
    BIG WEDNESDAY: K-BAY REDEMPTIONBIG WEDNESDAY: K-BAY REDEMPTIONAfter their last Kimmeridge mission spectacularly backfired a few weeks ago, John Carter and Timo Mullen, returned to the scene of the crime, chasing redemption. This time around, K-Bay duly deliveredsunshine, wind and proper epic waves.Photos: John Carter and Phil LongClick on any shot to view full size and scroll through the gallery! Head to your big screen to properly view these!EASTERN FLOWWith relentless easterlies sweeping across the UK for weeks on end, we felt absolutely zero shame in returning to the same haunts especially when the run of conditions was clearly saving the best until last. From the start of the week, one standout day was brewing and it didnt take a rocket scientist to work out where the action would be. This south west swell was being talked up in all the right places and plenty of surfers were headed over to Ireland to hit some of the big wave slabs.Only a few weeks earlier Id been stood in the same place, chasing similar promise, only to be served up a heavy cross-onshore battlefield instead. This time, though, the stars seemed to be lining up with a better wind direction. Call it instinct, call it blind optimism, but I had a gut feeling this was a session you did not want to miss. My Decision was made early: all-in, full commitment. Redemption or bust!EARLY KICK OFFGetting it right meant an early start. The alarm went off at 4am Wednesday morning in order to catch the 6:05 ferry off the Isle of Wight. By 8amafter a boat, a bus and a trainI was touching down in Poole, sipping coffee with Timo Mullen at The Goat like it was all part of a relaxed morning routine. The Goat incidentally, also have another Coffee shop in Wareham, the closest town to Kimmeridgethe owner is a keen windsurfer so worth dropping by en route to the beach if you fancy an excellent coffee!Timo reckoned K-Bay would turn on around mid-morning, so we fuelled up, soaked in the rare promise of sunshine, sandwiched between days on end of relentless rain and geared ourselves up for what was shaping up to be a full-tilt day of winter wave sailing at its best. That was the plan at least!MISSION ONAnd finally after our caffeine fix the mission was on. As we rolled into K-Bay the usually suspectsIan Whittacker, Max Metcalfe and Mike Byfield were already in the car park wetsuits half on and rigs ready. The same crew as the last time out were all back for more. Clearly nobody had learned their lessonOr was it time for proper redemption? If you persist gambling on the perfect conditions, you will eventually hit the jackpot at some pointright?Out to sea, solid sets were already marching in, and the forecast was for it to get bigger with the peak of the swell around midday. The wind wasnt quite there yet, but every chart, model and gut instinct said be patient. Timo was probably the most relaxed out of all us. He knows K-Bay like the back of his hand and knew that the tide would play a key role for the best window of opportunity.I was joined by fellow photographer Phil Long for the day and made the decision to hike up to Clavell Tower as the tide was right up to the base of the cliffs below. It was a tough climb, especially coming back from injury and in slippery mud but from our vantage point we had a front row view of the sets and Kimmeridges raw, brooding coastline stretching off into the distanceEpic!Not a bad office. As the crew hit the waterthe swich flippedthe sun started to break through the clouds, the wind kicked in and the waves started to turn on big time. Timo had made a gutsy late decision to switch boards from the trusty 106L down to the 94L Ultra Grip Quad D/Lab paired with a 5m D/Lab Super-Hero, as he clocked the wind was picking up fast. The gambit paid off as once on the water he was well powered and able to cut lose harder in the waves.EPIC ACTIONFor the next two hours the conditions peaked with up to mast high clean sets, opening up for multiple turns, along with a few chunky sections begging for airs. Lucas Meldrum joined the crew midway through the session and wasted zero time getting involved.Timo was charging his home spot, selecting the best sets and scoring some epic rides. He even threw down a crazy forward loop off the lip just to spice thing up. Max and Ian were both taking some big ones and even rode one wave togethera bit like the old days with Polakow and Naish criss-crossing on the wave at Hookipamaybe not quite with the same level of panache as the legends but it made for good photo!Meanwhile Mike Byfield was in the thick of things as per normal and fearlessly dropping into some waves of consequence.By mid-afternoon, the wind was howling, the sun was blazing and while the sets werent quite as big as earlier, there were still plenty of quality waves to go around.Tris Best, editor from Windsurfer Magazine and Scottie Stallman also joined the party, armed with 2026 wave boards for testing. If youre going to test new gear, youd struggle to script better conditions than this.Ian Whittacker was one of the first in from the water, wearing the unmistakable grin of someone whod just had one of those days!. He reckoned it was the best port-tack session hed ever had at K-Bayand thats coming from someone whos been sailing there for 35 years. High praise indeed. Lucas was equally fired up, calling it better than anything hed experienced during his recent three weeks in Cape Town. Not a bad benchmark.Timo came back to the beach to grab a snack and was also in seventh heaven after scoring some of his best ever waves at Yellows! It is hard to tell with Timo sometimes as it always seems like he is scoring his best session ever but this time, he did seem genuinely on top of the world after riding those waves! I thought Timo was done and dusted after his session, but after doing some quick maths he realized he could squeeze in another thirty-minute sessionwas he going to go back for moreHell yeah! This time he switched to the trusty 106L, with the sole intention of going out and busting some big airs! It did not take long before it was mission accomplished and we all cheered as he launched into a massive air straight out in front of the car park at the ledgeshe even threw in another forward off the lip on the next wave for good measure!ITS A WRAP!We finally wrapped things up around 2:30pm, mainly because Timo had a far more important missionschool pickup. Leaving behind sunshine, steady side-off winds and clean peeling waves felt deeply unnatural. I dont usually walk away from conditions like that, but wed already put in a solid shift and scored the prime, bigger stuff earlier in the day. We had scored the best of it and sometimes you have to put other priorities first!Timo dropped me back at Wareham station just as my train home rolled into the platformBonus! Some days luck just swings your way and everything goes right. A spree of luck like this is quite rare for the Motley Crew but today the stars had aligned for us! Big Wednesday, did not necessarily have massive XXL waves but it was big enough and just a beautiful and memorable winters day of windsurfing in the UK! To me it was true a celebration of UK wave sailing at its finestredemption at last!Sothe question remains will this stubborn easterly airflow keep delivering, or will the weather gods inevitably drag us back to the southwest ready for the upcoming Cornish Wave Classic? Either way, K-Bay had spokenand this time, it spoke loud.TIMO MULLENThere was a big southwest swell forecast everywhere on any southwest Atlantic-facing coast. Thats a real key indicator for Kimmeridge to be big. K-Bay loves a southwest swell. I could see that Ireland was going to be huge. All the pro surfers were heading to Eileens and Rileys that all need the same swell.I knew it was going to be pretty big and when we got there in the morning, yeah, for sure it was full high tide and normally at high tide the waves arent so big, but it was pumping like well over mast high! We waited a little bit just for the tide to drop, so the waves werent sort of bouncing off the cliff so much! I knew it was going to be one hell of a day.I opted to rig a 5.0 because it did look pretty windy. My 5.0 has a good wind range if the wind drops, I can still use it! And just as I was launching, I had my 106 Duotone Ultra Grip Quad D/Lab, which is basically what I use in everything. I just thought about the last day we had that was epic in the same direction. I remember my board being just a little bit too big when it got really good, so I ran back to my van and quickly changed down to my 94 Ultra Grip Quad D/Lab.And boy was I glad I did that!At the start, the wind was a bit lighter and it was a bit hard to get out, but man, as soon as I dropped into that first wave it was mast high and perfect. That 94-litre board, just being a bit smaller, its like having a surfboard underneath your feet. The board is incredible. I knew from that moment on Id made the right decision. As the tide pulled out a little bit more, the swell built and I have to say it was probably the second-best, just by a small margin, of how good Ive sailed Kimmeridge.Some of the waves were just epiclike, just epic. I think the fact it was sunny as well, made the day feel even better. Weve had pretty miserable weather the last couple of weeks in the UK, so it was the first time wed seen sunshine in a long time.I probably had another hour and a half on Yellows, which is the reef upwind t K-bay! It was simply just some of the best sailing. I was so tired because it was just relentlessmaybe five or six proper top-to-bottom turns and cutbacks on every wave.Then the wind started to go a little bit more offshore and we drifted down to Ledges, which is kind of where we would normally sail most of the time. It doesnt need as big a swell to work and yeah, it was a lot trickier. It was hard to find the right ones, so I came in for a quick rest, grabbed some lunch, and then I thought if I grabbed my bigger board now, it would be easier to manoeuvre around the break and kind of beat the rip current.Then I sailed for about another hour and Ledges was sick for aerials. Its a lot throwier wave, a lot more hollow than Yellows, and yeah, I had some incredible aerials. Its such a treat to sail this place.The wind and the waves started to drop a little bit, and the crew from Windsurfer Mag turned up. Good to see those boys out testing all the new gear.And yeah, then we went homeno disasters. In fact, JC managed to catch the train perfectly in Wareham, which is the closest town to Kimmeridge, and yeah, its one of those days Ill remember forever.IAN WHITTACKERI have been sailing K-Bay for 35 years and never had a day like this there! I had a gut feeling it could be an epic day so headed on down to Dorset and wow it didnt disappoint! Logo to mast high sets but also a massive tide, which made a tricky launch where we had to hike round the cliffs with all our gear and navigate our way out through the boulders.I managed to get out on my 4.5m Ezzy Taka and my 100L custom Quatro board which loves big waves! My third wave was epic two big bowling sections that reminded me of Margaret River. The next wave went a bit round as I was going for the aerial and I was a bit late! It was a super heavy wipe out but I didnt break anything just a half hour swim to retrieve the gear. After many more waves I came in buzzing.LUCAS MELDRUMI was struggling to get the timing right at the start and it was the first time using my dedicated down the line wave board for a while, so I was slowly getting back into it. I realised the key was going deeper and later than youd think. Once I got into the groove there was probably a magic hour, where it all came together and caught some of the best waves Ive had this winter. Its quite funny because I was in Cape Town for three weeks but first session back in the UK was probably better than anything I had out there!MAX METCALFEBeen trying to score K-Bay in this direction now for a while and a few times the swell was there but the wind wasnt or the wind wasnt cross off enough or it was to light. But then I saw this forecast and was really debating whether to pull the trigger or not, in the end I said screw it and loaded up the old Volvo and headed down and oh my god did we score!!! I was riding a 4.7m and 84L all day and it was perfect!The post BIG WEDNESDAY: K-BAY REDEMPTION appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.
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    VICTORY AT SEACLIFF!
    VICTORY AT SEACLIFF!VICTORY AT SEACLIFF!The sleeping beast of the cold, dark east coast of Scotland woke up at the start of the year and has been firing non-stop ever since! Local rippers Luke Smith, Ruaraidh Somerville and Nick Jupp decided to try and score the elusive Seacliff Beach! They scored, but it wasnt all sunshine and rainbows read all about it:Photos: Richard WhitsonRecommendationView these on a big screen! Click on any photo to enlarge and scroll through the epic photos (they are slightly bigger and even more dramatic in full size!)RUARAIDH SOMERVILLEIll leave the forecast science to Luke when he picks up the red phone and tells me were going windsurfing, I just head home from the pub (err I mean university library!) and get an early night for the inevitable score the next day. This time Luke picked me up at a nice 7 oclock, a lazy lay in for us dedicated Northerners! My thoughts were all over the place going into this session at Seacliff. Just a week previously we had scored pretty enormous and sketchy conditions at the same spot. The wave height had been about logo high at best, which ordinarily would have been a cause for celebration but until the tide gets too high and the spot gets un-sailably mushy, Seacliff is a scary closeout of a wave when its big. You get on what you think is a nice peeling right and then the whole thing whacks you in the face. Id come out of last weeks session a little humbled, and as excited as I was for a second crack at it having had more mental preparation, I was nervous too.Thankfully as we pulled up to the spot, it looked a lot more manageable than the other day: waves were still coming in at a nice size, but in more ordered lines and with less ominous crashing as they broke! The advantage of the spot when its not completely closed out is you can sail as far up next to the upwind peninsula of rocks, which form a handy point break and as you get more confident you can go further down the beach as it bends and tackle the heavier sections. The further advantage of the spot is upwind of the rocks is a relatively long period of open water and flat rocks, so the wind stays as clean as you could hope at such a venue. If you timed it right, you could get out with no real fuss as Luke discovered the hard way, when he timed it wrong on his first run out and got smashed by a chunky set wave. I followed, laughing at his misfortune like the cruel soul I am, not knowing what karma I was invoking as I did!The session went well I began by picking off some of the smaller sets and building confidence, slowly figuring out the spot. Its very rocky and theres a ton of current moving about, so the wave tends to be very unpredictable and when youre messing with chunky waves, rocks, and ice-cold water, this tends to push you into more conservative windsurfing habits.Still, the session went well and as the tide pushed in and more water filled the bay, the waves got a bit softer and more attackable. The frustrating side of this is as I got more confident in my ability to hit the steep closeout sections, those especially rewarding waves started getting fewer and fewer. I started chasing down the last of the big ones, convinced I would find the perfect section, until I was handed my karma from laughing at Luke at the beginning of the session.My mantra on each wipeout had been dont let go of the kit, because the current was so strong and swimming was a very uninviting option. The wave that hit me didnt even give me the chance to hold on! I found myself swimming right in the worst of the current, and when the set that had taken me out finally dissipated on the shore and I caught sight of the sand, I realised I wasnt even treading water despite swimming as hard as I could, I realised I was very definitely moving backwards, and out to sea. This was not good! Luckily, there was another set closing in on me quickly, and there was enough force in the wave to let me bodysurf most of the way in. Even walking in thru the waist deep water, which looks pretty relaxing in Richards photos, felt like trying to walk through quick-dry cement!My gear had been washed clear of the rocks, Luke had caught it, and the maintenance costs were still at a nice zero pounds and zero pence. I think we all got lucky that day Nick, after getting a sick wave, got hammered on the rocks on the inside and escaped to tell the tale, kit and body unscathed! My ego was a bit knocked by the swim, and I weighed up my options accept discretion as the greater part of valour, or get one last good one so my enduring memory of the session would be a good one. I figured, since the waves were getting softer, what could be the risk?! Im glad I did, because I headed back out and got a nice wee air off a gentle foamy section to round off the day. With a good wave under my belt, a rapidly disappearing memory of a spooky swim, and what I knew would be a good album of dramatic keepsakes from Richard, I reckoned Id had my fill.Throughout the session I was on my old trusty combo 4.2 Goya Banzai 11, and 75l Quatro Pyramid, with a 17cm and 9cm Incinerator thruster setup from K4 Fins. Ive spent a lot of time on that sail and board combination and its been very good to me, especially in unpredictable conditions. Neoprene wise it was 6mm wetsuit and for my first time, equally thick boots a surprising one given I loathe windsurfing in boots, but for some reason super thick boots feel better to me than thin ones! Maybe because theyre less flexible, so they cant move around as much on your feet? Im open to explanations! Anyways, theres plenty more swell and wind hitting the East Coast over the coming weeks, and I reckon well have more tales to tell! Until next time.LUKE SMITHWell day 1,000,000 on this run of east coast swell was great fun!! For the past what-seems-like-ages, a bitter easterly has been blowing the full width of the North Sea giving us around 12ft @ 10 seconds of straight east swell, and this day was very much the same. Im a firm believer that the North Sea delivers the same whallop with less swell period than the Atlantic although Im not sure how much science my hypothesis is based on!Were more used to storms passing higher north around Norway so this swell angle is fairly rare, all the same weve had a few goes recently here at Sea Cliff to get our eyes in.So, pulling up seeing what looked a touch smaller and more rip-able than the last time I was super excited. That excitement lasted all of the first run out when, after getting separated from my kit and swimming against an almighty rip, I noticed that the beach was getting further away rather than closer Option B being swimming parallel to the shore was out given that down-wind was mast high and given the still very low tide, breaking onto dry rock Option C was in, body surf as well as possible and hope the kit gets pushed back out to you!Im not sure I fully got over that initial scare, but did manage to pick off some nice fun ones. Leaving the biggest of them for Ru who definitely won Man of the Match in my eyes.With no signs of this East Coast run finishing soon, am looking forwards to more of the same coming up! Have to say the new Severne Stone board makes me feel every bit Jaeger Stone when sailing. Paired with the S1, at least the kit was ready for it!!NICK JUPPAfter a pretty exciting session the week before we invited Richard along to do some photos, hoping the conditions would be more manageable, I woke up nervous after seeing last week and just filming the boys in those really big waves . The issue was not just the size but how hollow and brutal closeouts some of them were. However, I really wanted to get a sail and I was hoping the size and the conditions would allow for some nice down the line.We arrived pretty early to catch the tide and it looked more doable, dont get me wrong it still looked dangerous in that there was some heavy waves breaking on the rocks but I was determined to give it a go so I rigged up 4.5 and went out. Luke warned me about the rip and so I was determined to stay up wind but also that at all cost to keep my gear so its a fairly nervous first run but I got out straight away and got on a wave straight away. Clearly they have loads of power in the wave and after a tentative top turn and managing to not get crushed by the powerful lip I tried one more run.. this didnt go so well and I spent some time getting munched and the rip was unbelievable, but I held out to my gear and got back to the beach. I knew it was time to tactically withdraw and grab the camera. Overall, this was a great experience. What I really get from it is respect for the sea and appreciation of conditions where you can really go for it.It was a great crew spanning 50 years, I am looking forward to more missions.The filmed footage is available for both sessions on my you tube channel @juppster5980RICHARD WHITSONJust a few miles East of North Berwick on the Firth of Forth, under cliffs and against a stunning backdrop of the Bass-Rock and Tantallon Castle, lies the hidden gem of Seacliff Beach. After a prolonged spell of strong easterly winds and building swell an intrepid trio Nick, Ru, Luke, venture out to put themselves to the test.Photo-wise:Had been keen to shoot some extreme windsurfing action on the East-Lothian coast for an age so was delighted to get the call from the guys for a 30knt session with a 3m swell at Seacliff. My first visit and what a stunning venue it proved to be. I always like to get context in my shots by including background and wider views of the conditions, not just isolated shots of jumping, so as usual on a first visit I did a quick assessment of the possible shooting angles. Luckily the tide was a spring one and I arrived mid-tide so managed to get part way out on the rocky headland (St Baldreds Boat) so as catch the action either with the Bass-Rock or with Tantallon Castle as a backdrop. I would usually use a 600mm lens for shooting but ended up shooting mostly at 200mm given the majesty of the conditions and the backdrops. I could tell the conditions were a challenge for the guys and, given that it was only 5C air and 6C water temperature, I felt at some points I was on beach patrol keeping an eye on each of them in turn as they got rinsed or separated from their kit. Fortunately, with a flooding tide all ended up safely back on the beach but stresses the importance in challenging or risky conditions of not sailing on your own and having a lookout on the beach. So much great action and nail-biting moments to capture but shot-wise, those with the castle as a backdrop were my choice picks of the day: but to get those you would need to shoot at mid or low-tide in order to get out on the rocks to get the angle. Overall, what a stunning venue given the right conditions and cant wait to catch the next session!The post VICTORY AT SEACLIFF! appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.
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