Dahab, Gulf of Aquba, Egypt

INTUITION COURSE 

Freeride 

LOCATION REPORT

WIND Always windy! 98% perfect wind for May, June and Sept and about 80% for Nov. WIND STATISTICS. Days with full planing conditions: May - 2000 14/14, 2001 14/14, 2002 14/14, 2003 6/7, 2004 13/14 Nov - 2001 10/14, 2002 9/14, 2003 13/14, 2004 11/14 SEA STATE Very flat water in bay. 100% flat water in speed area. Small rolling chop and swell out to sea. Incredible turquoise water.

Advanced sailors can sail on the other side of the spit to the speed course in 100% flat water.Only by launching from our centre do you benefit from this safety and being able to walk home. At all other centres in Dahab the wind blows offshore and windsurfers are regularly blown downwind for rescue or long swims!

RENTAL CENTRE Harry Nass Surf & Action Centre. JP & Neil Pryde kit. More than three times the size of any other Dahab centre but with out the crowds. In the best location for INtuition and the only location that guarantees you can't get swept out of the bay. On an INtuition course you have variety of boards to use, rather than the fixed board scheme many centres use.

Since using this centre I have only ever made one rescue, whereas at the previous centre I used in Dahab I'd need to make rescues every single day. Every sailor going onto the speed area (off shore) is issued with personal walkie talkies to keep in touch with Harry's personal rescue boat.

Kite surfing courses and beginners windsurfing courses also available on site.

HOTEL Hilton On the beach right next to windsurf centre. Well kept flowering gardens, swimming pool, sun-loungers and shades, wonderful friendly staff. The best food of all the hotels surrounding the windsurfing bay (I've stayed at all of them!). TRANSFER TIME 80mins from Sharm El Sheik airport.
BEACH FACILITIES Beach Café, Showers / toilets. Italian Restaurant. Chill out shaded zone.
WINDSURFING ALTERNATIVES Snorkling, diving, sight seeing, horse and camel riding. TEMPS Shorts / t-shirts in summer (including evenings) Long sleeve warm clothing in winter evenings.

VIDEO
A high, steady video platform over looking the main windsurfing area, enabling me to shoot the ultimate footage of your windsurfng action.

Replayed in the beach café every evening at beer o'clock.

MEALS Breakfast - Fantastic buffet on the shaded terrace with birds singing and the sea glistening. Lunch - At the windsurf centre in the Italian restaurant. We order lunch before we go windsurfing in the mornings, that way when we come off the water at 1pm (or other arranged time), the meal is there waiting for us to wolf down immediately! Wasting as little precious windsurfing time as possible.  That way we can relax for half an hour after lunch, rather than before. This system works wonders as the Egyptians have a reputation for their untimely approach to things...

Dinner - Usually we go to town for the most incredible fresh seafood platters and BBQ's. Sat on colourful sofas on the beach front, the once hippy town of Asala is a little more Mediterranean now with it's promanade, yet retains it' unique colourful and friendly atmosphere. A truly colourful and cultural experience unique to Dahab! We eat in the hotel a few select nights a week when they put on their very best and outstanding buffets such as their traditional Egyptian BBQ. More European traditional dishes are always available too. It is extremely rare for anyone to suffer from the infamous Egy-belly on my courses, as I only take my guests to reliable restaurants.

DRINKS & NIGHTLIFE Local beers and some OK wine is sold freely in the hotel and can be bought at the restaurants in town, however spirits are expensive and not very good. Bring a bottle if you fancy something more, but generally even the hardest core party animals cool it in Dahab as we do so much windsurfing and the nightlife is usually more conversational than wild.

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