Denied, Destroyed, Defeated by Big Waves

Usually when I have a bummer day windsurfing it's because there wasn't enough wind and/or the waves were puny. Today was different. There was plenty of wind but the waves were so challenging that I never managed to make it out beyond the worst part of the break. While standing on the beach looking, I could hardly even IMAGINE a way to get out, given the spacing and frequency of whopper waves. This video doesn't capture the size of the waves but it gives an idea of the trouble I was having.

Denied! NOT wavesailing in Fort Pierce from James Douglass on Vimeo.

It was easier for the kiters, who could sort-of float over the bad spots with their power from the sky. I find it annoying that after all my years of windsurfing, I still get worked by conditions that someone kiting for just a year or two can negotiate with relative ease. Sigh.

At the end of the day after I had given up and put my stuff away I saw another windsurfer. I don't know how he made it out, but I guess that shows it wasn't completely impossible.