Iceman in action

12 January 2008

Hi everybody,

Since Maui i am at home in Tirol / Austria. We had -20°C already around new year. There isn't that much snow, but it is quite cold... Well Friday and Saturday, 4th and 5th of January, there was "Foehn" here in Tirol. Strong wind from the south - it lets the temperatures get positive, the snow melts and usually it's pretty nice almost spring-weather for a few days.

However, it was not really inviting to go windsurfing, as we had just around 6°C, but i was not sailing since a month, so it was upon time... Check out my video from those 2 days...


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Don't have many moves there...it's really hard to film yourself...believe me... :)

The weird thing was, on the first day, the lake (Achensee) was half on ice! I was just sailing a few meters next to the around 10cm thick icefield. On Saturday, just one day later, ALL the ice was gone...hmm...maybe not gone completely..it was broken apart and building a 5 meter wide belt along the shoreline....

First day i was on my 5,2 360Free and IStyle 94, the wind was more constant than on the second day, when i was on 4,7 with the same board.

It is not really fun to sail, but actually - it reminds me of several really great sessions in winter at our lake. For example, I did my first 3 flakas on 26th of December some years ago at this lake!! Will never forget that...

Keep windsurfing...
ciao
Rossi