Pungarehu

(AKA Pungas or Fin Phucka) Okato, New Zealand

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ljools

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epic!!!

Pungarehu, Okato
Windsurfing: Waves 1 pm - 4 pm Monday. February 1. 2010

my rating

Wind Direction: SE Wind Strength: powered using 4.1 - 4.5m sail. Swell Direction: SW Swell Size: mast Tide: High - Falling.

When seeing the waves at the end of Bayly Rd you could really tell that the swell today was a good one. A few people were already out, mostly Auckland windsurfers. A morning crew was watching from the beach, it was full tide and was looking pretty good. It took me 10 minutes to get ready and I went out for 2 and half hours. On the first wave I was upwind the first section and went for it. Didn't really had a plan on what to do and how to do it but when I hit it, it was actually quite powerful and I went fairly high. I'm not too sure what happened then, was it a wind gust or the sprays from the wave but my kit went off and I let go. It got some airtime for sure (see photo on Kat's log)!!! I took me a wee while to get used to good waves again, finding the balance, after that the session was just awesome, waves after waves, only 3 or 4 people out, bottom turns, top turns... wicked. I tried a few aerials again but it hard to get back in the wave being pushed away by the offshore wind. Overall a super good session well worth 5 stars!

5 thumbs up!

Pungarehu, Okato, New Zealand

Comments

vo2maxed

01.02.10 8.42 pm
yeah man, spectacular shot,you were really flying!

magnus

01.02.10 9.21 pm
Sweet, the photo says it all! A bit of swim I suppose..

craigyboy

02.02.10 1.12 pm
dude you were tearing it up out there! some real nice sailing man.

ljools

02.02.10 5.18 pm
Cheers Craig, it was such a good aye!!! Loved it!!!

chris

03.02.10 12.32 am
thats an amazing photo, well done Dan! :)

dan_akl

03.02.10 7.44 am
Jebbe was behind the lens at the time so full credit to him for capturing it. There was a number of us on the beach when it happened and it was pretty awesome to watch. I've got the full sequence if you want to put that up somewhere

Ridge255