The wind continues to frustrate, but rather than sit doing nothing I helped Dan Ellis to get his own site up and running. Having got a few ideas going back and forth over the net, Dan came up to my place, but didn’t expect to spend the propping up the bar with the original windsurfing instructor and a previous owner of his title as British Slalom Champion.

Dan had a good idea what his site would look like, we just had to make it work, you can see it take shape as me iron out the problems and Dan starts to fill out the site, go to www.dan-ellis.com and you’ll see the first thing to go up is the very event I can’t manage to get to, speed week in Karphathos.

With another year about to tick past we headed to my local sailing club were we bumped into a couple of names from the past. When I first joined the F2 team Graham Eeles was already leading the team with regular slalom results. We had many great years running around the country chasing the finish line. Graham was a true racer, and tweaked everything the enth degree, and was the trait that eventually took him away from windsurfing and into catamaran sailing with my brother Robert.

If that hadn’t taken us back far enough, a former crew of Robert’s was also at the bar. Tony Morgan and my brother Robert were the backup crew to my father in the 1976 Canadian Olympics, but being so much younger than my brother, it was only when they returned that I really got to know Tony, he became one of the first windsurfing instructors in the county and put me through as one of the first pupils in the UK’s first ever windsurfing school.

Time has gone full circle and Graham is now back in the harness and living in just down the road for me, so expect to see more of him in later pages. Dan’s gone home to pack for Karpathos, and get his head around his website. I’ve started back at the gym, but can’t see I’ll be windsurfing this week.