IRELAND update!!

Update from the boys!!

What a day for the first round of the UKWA Wave contest in Brandon Bay, Ireland! Gowlane was working from about 8.30am this morning; 4-5m weather depending on the gusts coming down from the hills with logo high waves.Competition got under way around 1030 with the Pro single elimination and the Amateurs, Masters, and Ladies starting after the first round of the Pros.Conditions started to get trickier and by lunchtime it was hell out there! Massive gusts requiring a 3.7m sail then pockets of no wind just before a nice, logo high wave were wiping out a lot of the fleet and indeed some of the Pros. The cross offshore wind held up the waves nicely but as the day progressed and the tide came in they had more and more ‘punch’!