25th August, 2010

Hello!

I am on the greek island of Paros since the 20th of August, sailing every day with the meltemi winds in my favorite beach of Tsoukalia… It is like a dream to be back on the water after 6 months… I am so happy… We’ve had very good conditions, and although I still cannot go for it at all in the water, since my neck bone is still very fresh and I have to be very very careful, it feels great; just being on the water again, taking some waves and playing around on them and doing some turns seems unreal…

We’ve had some of the best days I’ve seen here in the last few years that I have sailed in Paros. On my first day here I sailed with 4.5 and 4.0 and started to get dialed into the beachbreak of Tsoukalia beach. On Saturday I had a mellow 4.0 session in the morning followed by nuking wind around midday; I was very powered on my 3.4 meter sail and broke my mast in the shorebreak, after a bad choice in waveriding. I was scared, and it was not so much fun for me to be sailing like that after the accident, so I waited for the evening when the wind went a little bit down and had a 2 hour session with my 3.7 and nice peeling waves, we could do 2-3 turns on them. Plus I was almost alone on the water as everybody was destroyed.

Sadly, we have no pictures from sailing here, as this trip was organized last minute, but we took some video so I can take some screen grabs from there… In the meantime, check out the 3rd girls windsurf camp video which is up on the internet already! Many thanks to Dimitris Maniatis for the editing!