It's been a highly mixed summer, and I haven't written much about it. Perhaps that's because it seemed to consist of many weekends on the Solent, with little or no wind. Not very exciting. I know I'm doing people a disfavour here, because there were trips elsewhere, but all too often not very windy.
I can't recall, as a result of the apparent samey-ness, from the distance of early November, exactly where Juan once again suggested that a smaller board would be a good idea. This is Juan of the "you need a 90 litre board" at Worthing, that resulted in the JP purchase. Anyway, J suggested that 80 litres was cool, not least because Emma had just found a used Wood Starboard Evo 80l. Oh yes, must have been Whitstable, one of the few non-South Coast venues. And I had already signed up for the Boards Forum holiday to Tiree, a notoriously windy venue.
But which board? Time for research, which led me to the notion of a freestyle wave kinda board, because I don't sail waves all the time and a board good for planing would perhaps be a bit more forgiving. So I searched the Internet ads, and lo and behold, someone selling a JP Freestyle Wave 77 litre! Only 77 litres, but then, I'm only 65kg at my heaviest, so it's still a floater, and sufficiently smaller than the JP 91 that I'd notice the difference. An email was sent...
And the chap lived in Witney, and was very nice, and worked for WIlliams F1 in Wantage, and he still had the board!! A late night trip over there in the van, and I couldn't believe my luck. A 2003 JP FSW 77l, in better condition than my own JP, hardly used. A good board bag too... and he let me have £50 off the asking to boot! Tooled up or what... Now I wonder what it's like to sail?
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