Newport Reef NSW 2.15pm - 2:19pm
15knots, headhigh waves.
Looked marginal but sailable
Got out straight way, picked up 1 wave then...
caught inside with no wind as it swung SW. Fell off, then rag dolled in the impact zone. Busted mast!
Then, try dragging the gear in, over rocks in front of 5 surfers!
Final result; 1 Good wave, 1 busted mast, torn sail & dented pride.
I take the attitude that busted masts happen and given the odds my time was about up - I was due! But I was also due 6 weeks ago when I busted a Powerex going over the falls at Wanda. Both times conditions were really marginal.
Now I get a new mast and new sails!
feel ur pain......
i've been creamed by monsters, seen the tip of my mast, jam into the reef and support the board in the air for what felt like a life time...with no damage at all
then finally did my powerex skinny in marginal onshore sh!tty slop on the lamest of lame waves too....went through my brand new 5.7 force too...bonus....
all character building and amuzing for other windsurfers...
Tim, this is why i don't like wavesailing in less than 20 knots!
Feel your pain though, never good doing a mast and a sail.
My shortest ever sail...
Thought I'd have my first go at wave sailing. When I got to the beach it was only 5-8 knots, but hey, the swell was only a couple of feet, so I was going in anyway.
Slogged my way out on my trusty Bombora Tri-fin, and just as I reach the beach break, a wave lips up in front of me. I get about half way up, then start coming down backwards. 
Not being any sort of freestyler, I was not very good at surfing backwards, especially with that huge kangacock fin.
Boom resurfaced in 4 pieces. 
Total sailing time, about 30 seconds. 
Nice nor easter at Palm Beach one day. Low tide, launched, hit a rock I didn't know was there due to frothy white water, ripped fin out of box and damaged box as well. Total sailing time, about 5 seconds
Hey Harrow
It's like deja vu. I did the exact same thing at the Mona Vale basin way back. Same board, same conditions, same wipe out, but I trashed my mast and sail not the boom. Mine was more like an attempted reverse pole vault using the mast tip and the beach.
Too funny.
Was at a freestyle event last September somewhere in north america. Shortly into the freesailing warm-up, sailed into the on-shore crowd that was too close.
Rig lands on photographer, broke mast, and twisted ankle a bit. One PWA guy told me that I was crazy and to stay away from him. Nobody wanted to lend me a new mast for the rest of the weekend.
Duration of my sail = duration of my comp = 18 minutes. Drive back home: 4 hours. The sheila was not impressed.
Morale: don't bring the missus.
First run out at Lano.Go for the upwind channel at mainbreak.Hit a mast high vertical face at full tilt (bad timing) bail out at about 30ft as i dropped from the sky i see my kit kartwheeling into the face of the next bomb. Cop about three on the head before i get to my kit. Go to waterstart and notice three panels missing and the top section of the mast in two pieces . ....Five minute sail , one hour swim
Yes...... character building 
twice last monthrig was ready on the beach as i donned my harness picked it up to go to water then snap the mast-5secs., arrived at beach seeing my mates zipping back and forth rigged as fast as i could went out on first gybe to go to deeper water as soon as i flipped sail and pullled on boom snap the mast-20secs. total time-25secs.
what an agonizingingly painful tread back to shore..
Was desperate for a sail one day but it was light (12kts) and Easterly, so directly on shore. Rig up the big stuff (hypersonic, 8.5m) and head out. The surf wasn't big but it was big enough that I should not have been doing what I was doing, particularly in an easterly wind direction. Anyway I wait for a break in the sets and head off, given the wind direction i'm in the surf for a fair while and with the current etc I can't get plaining. I almost make it out when the mother of all waves (for the day) appears out of nowhere. I pump like a madman and think i've made it, not so. You know that 2 seconds where you just sit on top of a wave before you get sucked over it, well, it felt like about 5 minutes haha. Anyway, boom, Get sucked over the falls and being a race mast etc hilarity does not ensue.
When I surface to assess the situation i'm greeted with the below result. The look on the face of the surfers was priceless, half total hilarity, half pure pity. Anyway the sail was repaired ok...mast didn't fare too well.
