I found this spot one winters evening trawling through Google Earth. Simon and I did a recce back in June on a no wind day and reckoned it really good potential. And this was the first day we had a chance to sail it with neap low tides and a strong SW forecast.

Has an early start to catch the low tide at 0930. Got there and it wasn't mega windy, but rigged the 5.7 anyway, in anticipation of the wind picking up.

On the water the wind was nice and steady like Kirby and the Ray, but a little light for the 5.7 and also too broad, on some runs I was having problems with spin out.

A SW here should give the same angle as Westerly at Kirby, but it felt more like a WNW at Kirby. Not sure why it was so broad, all the forecasts were for SW, XC and the Met Office were showing SW in the current conditions - it might be the high bank and hills on the North side of the course bending the wind into the west.

Tide wise the Western end of the bank was flooded by the rising tide at 1200 = 4.2m tide height. This gives a tide window of about 2½  hours wither side of LW.

We had about ¼ an hour where the wind was strong enough to start blowing sand across the bank and I managed a couple of decent runs. Then it dropped off, so we called it a day. Just as the tide covered the bank over, the wind picked up to something like what was forecast.

Not really a place for bare feet as the rocks are covered in barnacles and there is lots of broken shells on the sandbank.

Another 10 knots and 15 degrees less angle and it might well have been epic – how many times have we said that!