Surf weekend

Carlisle Canoe Club were having there annual surf weekend, so it seemed the perfect time to take out a few demos from the shop and give them a trial in the sea.

The club headed over to Embleton on the north east coast, just south of beadnell bay, the surf forcast looked ok for the weekend with 5 to 6 foot breaking waves predicted. 
We took over a couple of the Starboard stand up paddle boards and the Fluid Element , and decided to take out the starboards first.
After 10 minutes we all decided that 5 foot surf was not the ideal conditions to try to learn how to surf stand up paddle boards, i did manage to get out once and found myself quickly walking off the back of the board as the wave broke and the board shot forward.
The Surf on saturday was the bigger of the two days but was not as clean as sunday, the element preformed as well as could be expected,  with only a couple of times when i found myself paddling out to be faced with a a wall of water thinking i should of waited for this wave to break and ended up looped over and then rolling up before the next wave came.

After surfing on saturady we headed to Seahouses for fish and chips and stayed on a really nice campsite there that is highly recomended.
More of the club members headed down on the sunday and we hand another hard day of surfing, but we decided not to take out the boards and just stick to the boats after what happened the day before.
The Element  handled better on the sunday it the condition giving me longer runs and carving around on the shallow breaks, but the conditions didn't lend themselves to much else.

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and hopefully a few more trips might be planned on the back of this.

Antony