Day 21 - 5.0

8am and It's already blowing 25 knots outside, It's going to be a big day.

We packed the van and headed for Coronation, We arrived about 10am rigged and hit the water. It was really flat to start, not much swell but it was building.....As was the wind. I didn't have my 95 fixed yet so I was on my 113 with a 5.0 and it was quite a good setup for the day, The wind was a bit gusty today...not like at home, but just gradually undulated from between 20-30 knots.

Being on the 113 today was good I didn't have to think about my balance and could just enjoy my sailing, Tacks are super easy and there's plenty of float to get me through the gybes and to surf the waves.

3pm and the swell was coming in nicely now and the wind had finally settles into a constant 25 knots, I had just enough power to cruise out to the waves and catch a ride back in. Some of the sets were coming through head high now, It was awesome fun....You were purely just surfing the waves as there was bugger all wind while on the wave to power the sail.

I decided to call it a day and just sit on the beach and just watch for a while, Wasn't long before I noticed the Naish sail of Kai Lenny out in the waves, We hadn't seen him for a few days and no one had actually even seen him arrive here today. A few loops later he came into the beach, stepped off his board, Effortlessly popped his kit on his head and walked up the beach and placed it down next me.

"Hey how's things, Are you heading out" said Kai, This started our conversation. Turns out he's here in Australia for some sponsor commitments with RedBull over on the east coast, Once he completed that he came west for some port tack training. They had been up at Spot X for most of the arvo and then sailed down to Coronation. He was an easy kid to talk to, never had a swelled head, just loved anything to do with water sports. He plans to finish school next year and then do collage by correspondence so he can concentrate on the PWA Tour, He wants to be world champion....You can tell. We talked for a while about windsurfing in general and what he thought about Australia.

It was time to go....Same sort of forecast for tomorrow.
Must make the best of it, My last week.