Was desperate for a sail one day but it was light (12kts) and Easterly, so directly on shore. Rig up the big stuff (hypersonic, 8.5m) and head out. The surf wasn't big but it was big enough that I should not have been doing what I was doing, particularly in an easterly wind direction. Anyway I wait for a break in the sets and head off, given the wind direction i'm in the surf for a fair while and with the current etc I can't get plaining. I
almost make it out when the mother of all waves (for the day) appears out of nowhere. I pump like a madman and think i've made it, not so. You know that 2 seconds where you just sit on top of a wave before you get sucked over it, well, it felt like about 5 minutes haha. Anyway, boom, Get sucked over the falls and being a race mast etc hilarity does not ensue.
When I surface to assess the situation i'm greeted with the below result. The look on the face of the surfers was priceless, half total hilarity, half pure pity. Anyway the sail was repaired ok...mast didn't fare too well.
Not being any sort of freestyler, I was not very good at surfing backwards, especially with that huge kangacock fin.
Total sailing time, about 30 seconds. 
what an agonizingingly painful tread back to shore..
