IWA Brandon Bay Windsurfing event 2015 The first wave event of the Irish Windsurfing Association’s year took place on the 29th of March, and was supported by Jamie Knox. We had fantastic conditions for the event, which was a great relief to get 2015 of to a great start. Last year the IWA had 4 events but neither one was run due to the lack of wind on each date which was is very odd for the west coast of ireland not to have wind at least on one of the dates. We had a good forecast for the weekend of the event. The day before the event was super windy, I sailed fully powered up on a 3.3 sail as did most of the others sailing that day, at Gowlane. After a quick briefing at Jamie’s shop it was off to Fermoyle which was clean head high sideshore and Blowing ! I quickly rigged up my 3.3, 3.6 and 4.0 GA Sails, Which was a first for any comp I have done! The first heat was to be of the gold fleet,The Heats were scored on 3 waves and 2 jumps in 13 minutes which meant quite a rush t...

Since I have come back from South Africa we have had quite a bit of Good Windsurfing and lots of very good surf ! These are pictures from some of the sessions we have had since SA. The first windsurfing session Dad and I had at home after our holiday was an epic windsurf at Gowlane, Pretty windy 4,2 Cross off ! The waves were epic ! Small swell with quite a lot of Seconds on the period produced mast high waves, Sadly we didn't take many photos as we were enjoying ourselves too much ! But here are some of the few we have Niall Launching a big Arial   These pictures are of me surfing, This was one of the many days this winter of massive swells, So i decided to go and find some more sheltered waves, I went exploring looking for something that was worthy surfing, And i was luckily enough to find this new wave and surf it for the first time ! It was a heavy beach brake all to my self mwhah ;) I must Praise my new Wetsuit ! I got myself a Matuse 5/4 hooded winter ...

I am just recently back from my trip to South Africa ! Just before christmas Mom, Dad and myself decided to book a windsurfing/surf trip away for 3 weeks to Cape Town South Africa. As we were driving to the Airport in Shannon it began to snow ! So we were all pretty happy to be leaving the cold ! When we arrived to cape town after 13 hours flying and we were greeted by 35 degrees and lots of sun which was a lot more pleasant than the freezing cold ! Cape Town Going to Cape Town we didn't except there to be much diving involved, but we were wrong ! In-fact Our trip involved lots of driving ! On our first day we drove all the way to Cape Point, which was about a 2 hour drive away, Probably would of been quicker if we hadn't gotten lost !! Once we got there we went windsurfing, We didn't have epic conditions but the fact it wasn't 4 degrees and raining was pretty epic ! Elands Bay Then our next session was at Elands, which is about 200 miles away from Cape t...

Opp's it been a while. We have been in the water lots, but just not with the camera's so not been blogging here. November.  Lovely weather and amazing surf. Had lots of great surf sessions. Niall and I surfed big Mossies lots. We had a few sessions which were 4 times over head. Fun ! thankfully I have a new semi gun 6,6 (thanks Rob at Kerry Sale company for the board :) ). Also in November I had a friend of mine Colm Doyle come and stay with me for a week. We got a full week of double sessions in perfect weather. It was great fun. In early December we got a MASSIVE swell, It was something ridiculous like 13 meters at 21 seconds which means the special place works  worked ! For this place to work it has to be massive ! And it produces very hollow and very fast waves ! It was epic ! I had two days there and got plenty of epic barrel's ! I hope for it to work again in 2015 ! :D Here are some pictures of the last two months . It doesn't look very big, but d...