Hi Everyone,

I am new to this forum as of today and suspect I will be spending some considerable time on here.

Currently I am in Spain about 20 mins walk from the Mar Menor and a nice litle sailing school.
I have done a 10 hour course on windsurfing and over the last 2 years managed to get about 30 hours on the board.

I used a harness for the first time the other day which I got on quite well with but to date I have been elluded by the wonder of planing.

I am 5.8" weigh about 82kg and typically go out with a 5M sale and a 166Lt board. The wind speed seems to be a fairly consistent 10knots which is what I am expecting today.

I will definitely go out with smaller board today as I don't have too much trouble Tacking or jibing and was thinkning of going up to a 7m sale with it.

I have been out in roughly 20knot winds with a 5m sale, can't remember the board size but I still could not get into the plane and the ammount of force going through my front leg was crazy.

I have since tried lightening my load on my rear foot and staying off the heels.

I have done a search here for tips and one which I thought might be relevnat in these lighter conditions is going downwind for a bit so as to build up some speed and get the plane going.

None the less I am determined to go out there and get into a plane today so any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.