Swim for your life if i end up drifting further out i am exahusted already from a stack and have just managed to finally grab my board there is no one on the beech my friends surfing a break cant see me anyome and im exhausted drifting quicker out than i can swim in
The storm weather has deteoriated into a no surf. the wind has picked up considerably and the storm front its overhead like it was going to swallow me up.
I drift further and further out managing to cluch the last boat moaring
I tell myself if i let go of this boat moaring its a 100 percent search and rescue or im dead
I place my legs around it i stop drifting
Life is a bit more clear clutching to the last boat moring in a secluded bay
detaches the 5metre storm sail and startspaddling back into into the 80kph gusts.
Moring by moring he paddles his board back in .

out there in the water all all i could see was rain and it was dark like black the rain was almost traveling sideways not down.


My inexperience to judge storm windfront could of easliy cost me my life.
Ive been in alot of situations but that my friends would have to be the scariest hour and a half of my life.

anyone been there before ?

Glad you're ok but it's a bit reckless to go out in a storm with the wind offshore. Why put yourself in that position?

i had this once... I had a southerly front come thru with some squally winds unexpectedly. what worked for me was to get off the board put the rig in the water, undo the bottom of the uphaul rope and tie the end of it thru my harness hook.

Then i had a tether and just started the hard swim back to shore a few hundred metres. That worked in my case, obviously yours might be different... Just a thought tho.

:)

reading your posts...... wouldn't the smart water user ALWAYS have a small body strapped e-perb attached. Seems like common sense. Any bush walker, climber, boaty, diver, etc in fact any outdoors type person. Cheap insurance for the overworked search and rescue people. So the challenge is to start the ball rolling by positive action, do the things that show that you are a responsible person. $200 for your life , to me mine is worth that, at least.

j murray said...

reading your posts...... wouldn't the smart water user ALWAYS have a small body strapped e-perb attached. Seems like common sense. Any bush walker, climber, boaty, diver, etc in fact any outdoors type person. Cheap insurance for the overworked search and rescue people. So the challenge is to start the ball rolling by positive action, do the things that show that you are a responsible person. $200 for your life , to me mine is worth that, at least.

Where do you get them from?