Barbados, Caribbean.

Wave riding in paradise.

INTUITION COURSE
Surf Gods.

LOCATION REPORT

WIND  North east trade winds. Windiest months Feb and June. Rarely more than 18 knots / 5.3 weather. Average sail size 5.8m. Side to side-onshore winds from the left. WIND STATISTICS 2001 7/7 15 knots. 2002 9/10 15knots. SEA STATE Breaking waves up to half-mast high, but usually shoulder high.

Where falling off in bath temp water is pure joy!

SAILING AREA

Launch from beautiful Caribbean beach into small but often nasty shorebreak, choppy water with no breaking waves for about 200 metres out to reef with waves breaking for about forty metres, then out to open ocean with beautiful rolling swells.

Current pulling you downwind, so good blasting experience and basic wave sailing and upwind ability recommended. Also this course is only recommended for people under 85 kilos as winds are quite light for wave sailing.

WETSUITS
Shorts! If you really feel the cold, you might occasionally wear a shorty.

RENTAL CENTRE
Club Mistral.
Mistral boards and North sails.

HOTEL Self catering luxury apartments on beach. This is the ultimate accommodation in all of the windsurfing world, including Hawaii! Colonial beach house built from fossilised coral breeze blocks over looking the surf. Most rooms with teak floors and antique furniture. A truly exceptional experience! One of our apartments that sleeps four, has a 25m long teak floored open plan room onto massive balcony! Check out http://www.inchcape.net/ TRANSFER TIME 10 mins from Grantley Adams International Airport.

Inch Cape, the exclusive colonial house on the beach made of fossilised coral breeze blocks, is the world of windsurfing's ultimate accommodation.

BEACH FACILITIES
Our accommodation, two minutes walk. Silver Sands hotel restaurants. On site shower. Sun loungers and shades in Silver Sands hotel between Inchcape and Club Mistral.

WINDSURFING ALTERNATIVES
Surfing, sight seeing, nightlife, game fishing.

TEMPERATURE
Hot! Shorts by day and night.

VIDEO
Filmed from beach. Replayed at apartments.

MEALS

Breakfast - At apartments, usually we take turns in cooking each other breakfast and dining together in main dining room.
Lunches - At apartments, often chicken roti's!
Dinner - Barbados has a wonderful variety of restaurants from the sorts that Madonna might visit to the epic fish markets and Chicken Rita's, where culture hungry people like us frequent! Amazing food, especially the seafood, often proclaimed as the best ever.

DRINKS & NIGHTLIFE.
Two minutes walk from Inchcape is the Coral House cocktail bar and restaurant, which we almost always visit for après windsurf refreshments, if we're not enjoying a Mount Gay Rum and coke or Banks Beer on the balcony. For at least on night during the week we go to the Ship Inn, where for a nominal door charge of a few quid, the drinks are free all night to the thousand party maniacs from all over the world and Barbados getting down to some bump 'n' grind! Or there's the incredible Oistins fish market with all the local Country and Western swoon bars where we've been regularly known to croon with the elderly locals, drink cheap rum and coke, eat amazing meals and dance in the streets to reggae and ragamuffin concerts. The nightlife in Barbados is exceptional and culturally fascinating.

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