Bunbeg is right into the path of the depression. No land mass, nothing to stop the wind from the atltantic, it's relentless and consistent. Where in Dungarvan we would stop because the wind drops, here, it 's the opposite.
Today in the cold front every 20 minutes or so we got big storm cloud, hailstone and the rest gusting 55 knots it's so windy!
Westerly was to broad, so we settled for the lower part of the sand pit, the problem was to cross the channel, and the chop to get into the run with enough speed. Oisin did just that and a nice few gust, this where being a wavwe sailor is helpful! I could not today, only when the wind dropped to 30 knots i managed to cross the waves.
We need an incoming tide into the channel to flatten things out but this is because it was too broad, with wind randing from SW to WSW this will not be necessary, SW being very flat.
Managed just 5 run today and got the sail to the right setting, 4 cm more downhauling from last time, and set the boom lower and that was it.
2 session in 2015, and since oct 2013...not enough sailing to get back into proper speed, need to train again and be more commited, otherwise it just don't happen, that's the beauty of it, it looks simple just to get there and go fast but it's not.
But with Bunbeg, I think it t will be a could training ground to get motivated again and hopefully beating some PB there in 2015!