Whilst at my local sailing spot a week or so ago, a friend took some photos of a newbie getting nailed in some mild conditions. ![]()
Have some fun and see if you can guess the damage sustained to the gear (please don't spoil the fun if you know)
Sorry .. no prize apart from fame. ![]()
id say .. snaped mast snaped or bent boom ..... crushed ego and spirit for sure ... also i guss he suffered an embaresing carry up the beach to his car
Awesome photo series
. Caption comp #101?
What's the time gap between shots? Is that the fastest ever voluntary dismount that I see there between pic 1 and 2?
hm... I actually got sucked back-up into a wave not dis-similar to this one at said spot last year... what worse, it was with a mates brand new board and sail.
surprisingly nothing got damaged (including myself).
another mate of mine made the same mistake on his first wave... he got away with a half hour swim and a broken mast.
As for the photos I am guessing... mast and sail...
BTW, this is a classic mistake at your local spot. Someone told me when it gets to this size you need to line up you take off with a certain rock on the beach.
1 - Damaged emotionally
2 - Severed sphinster !!!
Speedo's now have been forced to to cater for the windsurfing industry - re-introduced the brown speedos!!!!!
I rekon he invented a new windsurfing move.... the submerged triple backloop ![]()
as for damage.... a torn footstrap ![]()
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There is a reason it is called tombstones ![]()
I reckon mast is good cos it was parallel to the wave so would not have been driven into the reef.
I call sail panel only
Amazingly the only damage was a 200m swim & a broken batten. We couldn't believe it. We fully expected broken masts, sails..but nup .. a batten .. sorry don't know which one. :-)
The photo relli posted was post-prang.
And yeah .. he wasn't a newbie, but the famed dreadlock toting "Corey" who was a standout superstar all day, doing some wild poop. Scotty McKercher also made an appearance and was also awesome to watch.
Here he is early in the day on a bigger sail, before changing up: