A great day at Larkollen

Larkollen 2009

After a summer almost without desent wind at our local break Larkollen we sent our dear friend Thomas (who is living at Larkollen) on a weekendtrip to Balticum, it payed off big time. Sunday was almost as good as Larkollen can get in the summer. I sailed for an hour with my 5.0m2 and the rest of the day with my 4,4m2. Had great time on the water but as always in the summer the waves was not as god as we like them to be. But even if some of us where missing bigger waves, there where plenty off windsurfers who couldn't care less about the waves, the place was crawling with windsurfers on every level. It looked like everbody who had a windsurfer in theire garage or anywhere else had decided to go Windsurfing at Larkollen.

In other words it was a great day for windsurfers of any level, let's just hope the next day will come sone.

Mountainbiking in Nordmarka

Odd-Steinar & I took a litle trip in to the forest on our moutainbikes to day, it was raining when we left the car but pretty soon it stopped. It was wet and slippery on the track but with great wett tiers on the bike we managed to pas all the rocks and roots. After about 2,5 hour we got back to the car smiling in the sun after a great session. The pictures are taken with my cellphone Nokia E71

Supernice wakesurf in the sunset

Surf & Wake in Bunnefjorden

Jørgen, Terje & the photographer had a super nice afternoon wakesurfing in the sunset in Bunnefjorden outside Oslo,. We al enjoyed the supersmooth conditions and I also enjoyed the great light for my camera.

Wake & surf at Vollen

Surf & wake i Vollenbukta

Jørgen, Terje and my self took the opportunity to get some action on the water to day and went out with Jørgens boat to ride some wake. Terje was ripping on a wakesurfboard and Jørgen on a wakeboard. They both was charging and I managed to get some nice shoots off them.

5 years ago in Stavanger

Orrestranden, Stavanger

Late in september 2004 Jørgen, Pekka and my self took a weekendtrip to Stavanger. The plan was to sail at Refsnes or Orrestranden on friday and saturday. We was revarded with two epic days of sideshore conditions with great waves and wind. The waves was hughe and the wind was plenty enough to sail 4,2m2 for me. I even managed to take som pictures and shoot two movies during the weekend, the pictures was taken with an old "non-digitaly" camera and I just found the pictures and scanned them.

To see the movies from Refsnes & Orre please use these links

http://www.vakum.org/files/files/vakum/249.wmv

http://www.vakum.org/files/files/vakum/248.wmv

Blown away at Larkollen

Jørgen, Pekka & my self was waiting patient for the wind to arrive at Larkollen yesterday, and we was rewarded with a great session at "smørbrød". We sailed with 4,4m2 and got a litle taste off how good it could be out there. And yes it was sideshore, but we always had the feeling that the wind & waves was almost ready to go off but they just wouldn't let go. So in the end we went back to the beach only to find out that the wind realy kicked inn as we was almost in at the beach. I sail a couple off rounds at "Hvalen" but pretty soon my sail was to big to handle and I went back to the beach. Considered going out with my 3,7m2 but it was getting darker every minute so I dropped it. One off the guys messured the wind to steady 21 m/s just after we had rigged down.

After a night in my van that was shaking in the wind all night we got out off our sleepingbags around 04.30 this morning, time to get up an rigg. Tried to get out on the water with my 3,7m2 around 05.15 but it was blowing much more than the 21 m/s we meassured yesterday night. I was totaly overpowered even in the shelter off the forrest. I managed to get out on the water but couldn't even get out of the bay due to the nukin wind. After a while I dropped it and decided to rigg down and go to work.

Lista juli 2009

Lista juli 2009

Jørgen, Tormod and my self took the looong drive from Oslo to Lista on friday and scored bigtime on saturday. After a slow start of the day the wind and waves picked up around 2 o'clock. I sailed with my 5,0m2 and 84 liter waveboard and had a great time out in the waves, as usual "Pisserenna" delivered sideshore conditions and for a litle while even sideoff. We even got time to take some pictures, at the moment I have only got hold on my own pictures but I hope that Tormod will allow me to use some off his pictures on my webalbum since many off them are off my self sailing.