The Hibbard Cargo Short!!!!

Fat Face have named a pair of shorts after me!! You can now rush out and buy the Hibbard Cargo Short! They are available in their Spring range, which is in store and online now.

Pretty cool to have a item of clothing named after me. Pity I don't get royalty payments!!

FAT FACE ONLINE STORE

SeaSports Southwest

A new era in windsurfing is happening in Teignmouth, South Devon: SeaSports SW are preparing to open their doors to one and all in March. They will be offering windsurfing tuition/hire/sales. It's owned and run by Tim and Sue Cox. I learnt to windsurf in Teignmouth so it's great to finally see a windsurfing operation arrive in town. Click on the logo above to find out more. Or go to www.seasports-sw.com

Driven By Wind - The quest for the World Record

This event starts today from Southend in Essex. The aim is to break the world and mile speed records. Dave White, the UK's top speedsailor is running it and some of the world's best speedsailors are in attendance including Team Tushingham guys Bob Cunningham and Paul Simmons. You can keep up to date by following these links or clicking on the picture:

GPS Speedsurfing

Spectator Sport - this is a cool link. You can watch real time movements of the sailors

Pagham Provides!

Had a good fun session at Pagham on Sunday along with about 50 other windsurfers!! Man it was busy out there, but I kind of like it when it's like that. It restores my faith in the sport. Not that it is really lacking anyway.

There was plenty of action going on with a high standard of sailing. Only saw one minor crash, which looked was more funny than painful. The cold is a funny thing - I always find that the first 45 mins is really good, I land most of my jumps and feel pretty good about everything. Then after that the cold starts to seep into my head and hands and it all gets a little more unpredictable. You can see it in other people too. Even Andy King, who is usually "Mr Back look consitstent" eventually starts to drop the jumps as the cold gets to work. Maybe I need a warmer wetsuit?

I almost didn't sail yesterday and was very close to turning round and going home when I relised that I had left my 4.7 and 5.2 down in Devon! Luckily for me as I was just about to leave the wind picked up and it was perfect on my 4.2 Rock and Evo 75. In fact I'd rather have been on my Evo 70 but that was in my van half a mile away from the beach (it was busy in the car park!). I've never left my sails behind before - Must be the cold affecting my brain!

I reckon Pagham would've been good today but I had other things to do. Back to Devon this week so hoping for some more great winter sailing.

You gotta love this sport for the variety it can give you. One day starboard tack onshore jumping and then 2 days later cross offshore down the line. Bring it on!!

Winter Wonderland

It's been a great start to the New Year, with plenty of wind around. The past week has seen plenty of wind and rain (!) and tomorrow looks like it could be quite good. I'm up in Surrey for the weekend so will probably head for Pagham on Sunday.

National Windsurfing Week

Happy New Year. Wishing you all a windy 2008.

National Windsurfing Week is coming to a beach, lake, river near you in 2008. Spread the word.