Last weeks time in France taught we a few lessons. Time is a great healer, and I don’t give it enough time, though that’s a lesson I should have learnt before. But after driving my van around for years it took its first trip to foreign climes to make me realise it just not big enough. Ok it doesn’t normally get loaded like it did at the Defi Wind, but the cab just needs more room.

Sitting behind the wheel is fine; plenty of room to stretch out, but sit in the passenger seats for long and it not much fun. Not being able to stretch out and move my let had made it swell, but it was my plans that had grown by the time I we were back on UK soil.

I’d decided to open up the cab into the body of the van so I could just have two seats in the front and add a couple in the back. I run the idea past Fame who made my van in the first place, thought it wise to make sure it wouldn’t fall apart after I got stuck in with the grinder.

These thing always take a little longer that you first expect, but having decided to stay off the water for a couple of weeks to give the heeling process a chance I had some time on my hands, plus having the van empty would keep windsurfing out of temptation.

Ever since I had the van built its been in a state of constant change, at the beginning we had the side open and all the boards slide out on a rack. That took too much room and as the years have passed I’ve changed the layout to make a bit more room, its amazing how the change in board design has effected the layout.

Now my youngest boy Aaron has seen what I’m up to, he wants some input. Being only ten, he’s keen to go camping etc, and wants to have a bed in the back. I’m sure the next few days will see the plan change daily, but I’m keen to see where we end up.