A bit delayed but I've been away on travels for the last month or so and haven't been able to sit down in front of the laptop. First stop on my travels was Tenerife as Lucy was due to compete in the PWA Ladies' fleet there. Having never been to El Cabezo before I was looking forward to this trip -2 full weeks of strong winds and port tack jumping, something I am pretty unfamiliar with but was very keen to practise. In the end I was very disappointed with what we got. I believe we were a little unlucky with the wind (we got 4 days underpowered on 5.6 and 3 days powered up on 5.0 out of 14), but the spot itself was nothing like I had imagined. Maybe I'm just spoilt having spent the last 20 years on Fuerte! Despite that, it was very interesting to get a behind-the-scenes perspective of my first PWA event in 15 years or so - the level is really high in those very average cross-on conditions, great to watch the guys busting out the moves, and it was also great to catch up with old friends and make lots of new ones. It was also interesting to certain competitors hotly disputing the judges' final decisions after heats, I'm sure that never happened back in the day ;) .
Anyway, all in all a very poor windsurf trip for me, and Lucy's competition didn't go that great either, losing in the first round in what I would say were totally uncompetable conditions then drawing the rising star of women's wavesailing Sara-Quita in the double elimination, where she sailed very well but was still beaten fair and square by the freestyle world champ, who coincidentally was one of the nicest, most genuine people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Oh well. Here are a few crappy photos of mine and Lucy's last ever windsurf trip to Tenerife (mine definitely)...
