The flat spell continues...

Not much to report at the moment other than the fact that the wind and gales have now blown through. A man was rescued off Port Talbot over the weekend after a kayak fishing expedition went wrong!

Not ideal weather to be going out fishing from a canoe in now is it?! But luckily he was picked up alive.

The winds blew strong and hard from the NE mainly making it feel very chilly over thw weekend but pretty much flast as far as the surf was concerned.

The south coast of Cornwall has prob faired slightly better as a low was sitting just off the coast over the weekend.

By the looks of it, that will remain for much of this week but apart from bringing rain to south Wales, there will not be much in the way of surf as that low weakens day by day and heads south west down into Spain.

Annoyingly it's one of those useless lows(for us) which just brings shit weather with it. The last time I checked, Bank Holiday was looking like a wash-out too but the Welsh National Surfing Championships are on @ Fresh west that weekend ( maybe...)

I'm writing a brain bleeding surf quiz for tomorrow night's WCSC meeting at the Salt House so that should be a laugh, from 7.30pm onwards... 5pm - the sun has come out! :)

Spring low like winter

Congrats to greg owen on the birth of his new baby. This was Greg the day before blasting the shit out of the point:

Well we finally had some decent swell this week as a solid winter low reared its ugly head off the north coast of Ireland and delivered some 4ft+ waves.

The wind, strong nw helped squeak a few clean days out on the point but I only managed to get in once at Coney.

Weds night saw clean and rideable faces at Coney - something I've not witnessed all winter! The crowd was thinned out and nice 3-4ft waves came through. The water was warm enough with a hood and I bumped into sven, math, tris, phil and afew others out back.
The point was going off early about 4.30PM but I couldn't get down there in time to enjoy it but the pics from claire Beach look nice on Facebook.

The weekend is lining up nicely with more nw winds and swell so fingers crossed I can score some early. Enjoyo!

Cold snap coming

Just as all the birdies settle down to their nest making and the vegetables start poking up through the soil, a COLD SNAP suddenly rears its ugly head. First the fuel shortages caused by idiots panic buying and now this! ;)

I'd only just had my first BBQ of the season too..

The sun is taking a break and a low is on its way down from the north bringing chilly NE winds so we're going to have some biterly cold weather for a couple of days before it gets back to normal.

There's talk of a small swell blip today, not checked the cam yet so will swing by the beach in about an hour and check. Easter weekend isn't looking like such a wash out now and Sunday looks pretty damn good for waves currently so fingers crossed that lasts!

I've got my surfboard bike rack sorted at last after much hassle as the shop gave me the wrong fixtures which left me with alot of head scratching at first but it's now assembled and ready to go once this weather warms up and the Wales Coast Path gets finished!

And finally, this weekeend I begun dabbling in driftwood art for my garden(it just goes to shows what a flat spell can do to a man).

Apparently they make it looks like someone has been buried in my front garden! But I'm quite happy with my proto-types and will continue making things, so if anyone fancies buying some - let me know ;)!