Dungeons and Sunset Boxing day Tow Surf 30-60 ft???

Now that the hype to over of the past Xmas and New year’s swell has pasted along with Zigzag running the the article on the Boxing day session, which I am going put my neck out and say it was possible the biggest waves tow surfed in South Africa to date. I was huge and rouge! I was lucky to get out the water unharmed, the only damage was the hull of the ski, pinning it on the rocks coming in at the slipway as the pole was knock over by the swell overnight along with the loss of a tow rope.

Although there were no photographers or media boats able to get out to the breaks, a mad sailor in his 45ft monohull did pull in for 5 mins at Dungeons on his way out to sea and snapped a wave of Jakes whilst passing by the Centennial. The pics where sent to me from a good mate who I train with on the bike most mornings, Matt Wentworth who obviously has been hanging around the yacht clubs bars little too much! But you will get the idea of the how rouge and unpredictable the swell was on boxing day. If I had to start describing my session I honestly wouldn’t know where to start, beside my first wave was 30-40ft plus and I was able to make the inside section of Dungeons and got pumped to the bottom, wearing an Impossible paddle vest, impact vest and buoyance vest on and was wishing I had a Co2 vest after 60secs of being ragdolled 30ft under water… but that was only the start of the session!