VASS! The time has come!

Sweet !

Got my flights through! going to vass on sunday for the summer to have a lovely old time!

The centres have both had alot of treatment over the winter period and are looking nice a fresh with brandnew toys to play with!

At vass were having 2011 jp neil pryde kit and at club dahab there having full fanatic north!

Check out the new look on the new website! www.clubvass.com

Air flaka

busy busy busy!

So I've been back in the uk for a few weeks now and its been alot of fun! even managed to get a good amount of windsurfing in the uk done! whoop!


On the weekend of the 23 and the 24th I went down to hayling island for the fist event of the season for the freestyle! however we ended up with no wind but still had a great event with Trevor Funnel running some light wind freestyle comps and also ran a freestyle tow in!
(Max Rowe Pictured)











Whilst on the beach dave white decided to get some shots with the ladies in to! ofcourse he wanted to have us all looking like pervs in the background!












On the saturday night was a good opportunity to have a bbq seen as there were so many people from vass and the uk freestyle scene!











and after a few more beers we managed to to have a itrip rave were we gotabout 5 vans tuned into the same ipod!














The hungover morning after I woke up to the sound of Max rowe laughing to bringing down very fast kite to knock over ali much to our amusement!













The following day a few of headed over to the wakeboard tow park at hove lagoon,
http://www.hovelagoon.co.uk/
Were they kindly let us have a go on it with a windsurf kit and it worked really well! I managed to get a funnel on my first run, got a little cocky and tried to ponch as jamie said, being the flat water ponch perfectionist that I am! Took the nose of his board of! stupid Ric!
So i spent the next day repairing it getting it ready for him to take it to the PWA event witch was two days later hense why the blog update is a little late!

Sorry Jamie !

Brought him some beers to to make up for it as well as obviously having vasscoast customs treatment.







working on the board,









And then putting in the hours at night...,








The finished result!














Photo's of the hove tow in and maybe even a video yet to come! whoop whoop !

5.3 Ice 2010 for Sale!

5.3 North Ice 2010! For Sale! Amazing condition! £235 quid! Bargin!

This sail was my least used sail last so the monofilm is still in amazing condition, no repairs.
The sail is perfect for most conditions from freeride, freestyle and uk wave conditions!

The stickers can be removed before been posted or left on.

For any more info or photos please email me on Richardcleworth@hotmail.co.uk

Cape Town Video 2011 !

Cape Town 2011! Ric Cleworth >>

Cape Town Photo special!

Now I have good internet I thought it would be nice to get some photos up!

Like my last post said, this was my first wave sailing trip so its nice to finally have some wave photo's! Enjoy! Video In the next day or so so stay posted!

SA Cape Town ! !

Cape Town, What a Place! Beautiful scenery, amazing property, and lets not forget the massive waves and strong winds! Including the famous table mountain to look at every morning.

It's my first time to Cape Town and Its everything people had mentioned to me and more, money well spent!

Where we live and where all the windsurfing/surfing happens Is only a 30 Minute drive from the Airport.

Whilst driving from the airport to table view where we live, we saw the townships which is mostly tin shacks where the poorer locals live. Once we got closer to the sea front the property is huge and I would say for the rich only!

Our house is sick! Big Thanks to Profitt for sorting it out! It has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms! 2 kitchens! bbq area, double electric Garage full of kit and surf boards, Garden, Big Pimping !!

Being a freestyler this is my first wave trip! I wasn't sure what to expect. There Is a Lake down the road which is good for keeping up the freestyle, so I would say a normal windy day here would be a freestyle session on the lake then to a wave spot sometimes before lunch with another wave session in the afternoon.

Some days we get no wind but there is normally a good swell so there is always surfing to be done.

I wasn't sure How I was going to get on with wave sailing but I love it a lot! Even though I would say I'm pretty much a Beginner having only ever been to Rhosneiger which is more jumping and swell, and one time at Gwithian. There is always a huge rush when turning on a wave knowing it might crush you and your kit.

One of the hardest things for me at first was finding a decent piece of swell on the way out to gybe on to ride back in, sounds easy, not when there's 30 knots of wind chop and other windsurfers everywhere to look out for.

Then came timing on the wave, when to turn, and how hard to turn. Ariel opportunities? Still not got this sorted yet think it probably take's years to get this right! Getting it wrong mostly ends in holding your breath and praying for your mast to come up still in one piece!

Any way enough rambling, this place is sick! If anyone is thinking of going in the future then do it! I've got a funny feeling I'll be back here next winter!