OUT WITH THE OLD - IN WITH THE NEW
NI WINDSURFING CRAIC - www.windsurfingcraic.co.uk LAUNCHED!
NEW WEBSITE FOR NI WINDSURFING CRAIC
I don't have much good to say about Christmas's generally. There's only so much food (but not drink) you can take, so much crap TV to watch and of course only so long you can stand being nice to your relatives. All that and it's generally too cold to windsurf - although not always...
On the plus side, it means that there's no work to get in the way of important things like wishing Simon Cowell a slow and unpleasant death and of course updating one's website. So it is, that I've finally got round to sorting out the website associated with this e-newsletter. So here's what you'll find :
- All the craic and news on www.windsurfcraic.co.uk
- Each newsletter after I send it out - but often with photographs etc added
- Details of our past windsurfing holidays - now including the full photographs. Prasonisi, Egypt and Medano are up, more later
- Pages on some of the regular windsurfers - including (be very scared) photographs
- A photo gallery of windsurfing locally
- The pages to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter
By the way, the old URL of www.mylyst.com still works too.
So why not take a stooge through this and have a laugh. And any time you get one of these newsletters, you'll often find additional stuff on the website.
All feedback welcome.
AND I WANT INPUT FROM YOU TOO - YES YOU!
I can't be at every windsurfing happening, my name isn't Andy and I do have to work for a living. So I need your help to tell me what's happened. All I need is an e-mail (there's a form on the website) telling me who did what and where. If there's photographs, so much the better, they can be e-mailed to me.
And don't worry about tarting up the English or even spelling. You give me the basic facts and we'll make it look good - and for good measure we'll insert the humour and humiliating comments as required.
AND - if you'd like to feature on the windsurfers pages - just send me the stuff. I need to know a bit about you and to get a couple of your best (or worst!) photographs. Come on, depress your mates....
AND SOME PEOPLE EVEN WINDSURFED THIS CHRISTMAS!!
Yes - honestly, they did! After Christmas it became slightly less baltic (3-4 degrees) and easterly.29th saw Wookie, Andy and Thomas Bin Laden out in some quite good winds at Whiterock. In the words of Father Wookie 'it was cool'. We're not sure if he's referring to the temperature or his windsurfing - clearly he wasn't referring to Andy.
And on the 30th I made my debut following a dodgy shoulder. My thanks to the huge numbers of you who replied to my last e-mail with some sympathy - both of you will be pleased to know I suffered no ill effects from being back on the water. In fact Wookie and I went out in a rising wind and 3 degrees. Wookie has developed a cunning arrangement of Marigolds (held on with duct tape) under his mittens. He looks like a (particularly mean) boxer who is about to do the dishes. He went for 5m, I took a 5.5 and we both badly under estimated the wind. After a brief but chilling mauling he went down 2 sail sizes to 4m and I 'rested' in the lee at Daft Eddie's. Then the wind really came up, certainly gusting to over 50 mph. Wookie managed 2 runs on the 4m, but I was murdered on 5.5 when I came out from behind the island. No chance, so it was a walk home from the wrong side of the sailing club for me - much to Wookie's delight!
So - I'm back. Look out for more abuse both on and off the water....
Alan