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at my house!!

Personal Comment

With the wind coming from the North we were really stuck for locations to go to for good wavesailing in Ireland, basically the wind is never from the North so already we were looking for somewhere new to sail the storm. Back to basics, get out a map, look for where the swell will hit biggest and where the wind is sideshore! The only option seemed a west facing bay in the most northerly point in Ireland, Pollan Bay on the Malin Head Penninsula. Neither myself or Oisin had ever been there before so we were both pretty anxious as if it turned out to be a pile of shit then we had blown the whole day driving and wasting everyones time, to say this was a gamble would be a massive understatement!!! Oisin arrived at the beach first and his report back wasn't the best...''Its double mast high and onshore, looks impossible to sail!!'' Fortunately within half an hour the wind swung more cross shore and the waves dropped in size, so by the time we both had rigged up it was looking pretty good!! It seemed windier than it was, and with such a big swell we had to rig big sails to plane due to the very strong rip currents that day. Both of us enjoyed about 3 hours jumping and riding trying to better eachother for biggest wave and biggest back loop!!
All in all it wasn't the most classic down the line wavesailing day ever in Ireland, but for an adrenaline fix and chasing the Storm I think we have to win the award for the most out of the way location and taking the biggest gamble!!!“