Worst June for a long while

That seems to be the headline for this month. I was chatting to bob blythe the other day who informed me that June was always good for as long as he could remember (back in the day!) and this was the worst one he could remember and he's getting on a bit now ;)

We've had the swell but the wind has killed it thanks largely to the jet stream being too far south - it's now buggered off up north again so fingers crossed it stays there for a while.

We've got a weak low pushing in over SW Ireland tonight and into tomorrow and then clearing for Sunday. Apparently the rest of the Welsh Nationals will be taking place at Fresh West over the weekend so at least they should have waves although I'm sure Saturday will be too clever in that wind.

The point in Porthcawl has had a couple of half decent days but the tides have meant earlies and late surfs were out the window so only the self employed, unemployed and students have been able to score any waves!

The wind has been relentless though, blowing strong all day and into the night and carrying on the next day all week long...

Windguru has been conjuring up daft expectations for Sunday getting everyone in a pickle but I think there will be a lot of disappointed surfers out there this weekend although having said that - at least we'll have something to surf!

If we get 3ft on Sunday then we'll be happy, just so long as the wind plays ball and delivers SSE as promised...

Other news - our WCSC club fundraiser and the Elusive Taylor Steele Night went down well and we raised a few quid for the Logan Padden Foundation. The beach day moved to Sunday and I worked the barbie hard for a couple of hours feeding the hoards of hungry surfers who kept coming back for 2nds, 3rds and in some cases 4ths?!

A crowd gathers for the penalty shoot out down on the beach:


Tom Anderson rocked the mic, turning the event into an ASP world tour event complete with beach side interviews with anyone that moved whilst Matt Hapgood helped me on the BBQ, throwing on raw meet whenever I gave him the nod!

The club gazebo and base camp for the day:

Stu Bentley was luckily on hand with all the hardware and helped us erect the large club gazebo etc which would have been a struggle without him so it turned into a pretty civilised affair with tables, chairs, plates and eventually cutlery!

We ended the day with a fun swell board tag team event complete with inflatable croc nicknamed 'steve' which had to be ridden for 2 waves by each team.



The red team ended up winning - comprising of myself, matt, sonja, emma and lewis and we all received beautiful Olympic style medals for our troubles ;)

Looking forward to the next one...