Swan River Mob (WA, Australia) - 2008-05-23
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Slowboat
38.523(X)
37.007(X)
17.768(X)
22.992(X)
32.948(X)
119.32(X)
Snides
33.31(X)
31.16(X)
14.55(X)
22.04(X)
27.73(X)
26.744(X)
Claude
36.914(X)
34.333(X)
19.502(X)
21.249(X)
31.268(X)
160.948(X)
25
Tim Stockton
Chris Adamson
Craig Mann
Recycle
Dan Engdahl
Whitey
Matthew Langer
JC
Stringer
Istaaack
Neil Daffen
Linds
Spock
Gav
Mick
SAM WILLIAMS
Lachy
Aiden
Aids
Average37.7235.6718.6422.5232.11140.13
Slowboat (47697km):
5790 days ago
4 categories

Another Melville dawn patrol. Team Capt Pete was a little slow off the mark and needed multiple phone calls to get him down there. Snides was first on the scene. It was still pitch black when I got there. Claude turned up a little while later. It was cold, wet and miserable so took a while to get motivated to rig. Snides and PD on the mission first up. Then Claude and I. The "workers" didnt stay long before bailing off to have some fun at their desks. The wind held out till about 2pm. By which time Ado and Matt turned up for some mission time.

Great fun. Good gusts in the mid 20s. I used the 6.6m all day, with SP47 and 23cm KA symmetric fin. The chop started off totally mental, but smoothed off a tad by lunchtime as the mega-high tide started to drop. Got my fastest run in front of a rain squall where I actually got overpowered for the only time all day. I guess that one hit 30kts but the chop was a bit tricky to convert it to more than 38.8 on the dial. I was on the verge.

Not a lot of kms for time spent there. hmmm. I was knackered from yesterday. Claude the machine pumped out some distance today. He didnt look tired at the end.



Snides (28038km):
5790 days ago
3 categories

nice early sess before/during work... ca 50,kon5.8,falcon 28.

definetly overpowered for the short time i was on the water,even with 9kg's on i was still overpowered.

pretty good conditions generally. gusting to 25 i guess, nice runs down through the swells off majestics.

great going Chris, and i imagine Claude has had another great day as well...hats of to you guys running through the ocean!!Surprised



Claude (27863km):
5789 days ago
5 categories

Great fun on Swan ocean once again , Isonic 86 , 6.1 & 29cm , 18 - 25knts with the odd 30knt gust , Slowey in a class of his own today , those big km's will have to wait for warmer days , Chris and Pete clowning around  getting everyone exited about nothing.



Comments
Sammy the snail


WA
Australia
5790 days ago

F>>>>>>>>>K you are on fire boyyyyys Surprised, I am getting a bit jealous here...

evets


WA
Australia
5790 days ago

I am totally in awe of those speeds on the oceanSurprised.

If possible please would someone post a google earth image. I thought the chop on the estuary was challenging 

Hardie


WA
Australia
5790 days ago

Well done slowey impressive, and thanx for the empathy and advice!!!!

Snides


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

 swan river perth to the top right cornerhere is the shot of my meagre attempt today,perth city centre is top right corner.

melville,pelican point and pt walter are the place marks.

Steve the chop close to melville launch is horrendous and very confused the chop softens and becomes more uniformed swells as you approach majestics point,i estimate this morning the swell approaching  a meter in height.

keep in mind the swell is running with the wind so you can pick a fast line along through the troughs.

 

Hardie


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

You guys deserve medals for do those speeds in the Swan Ocean

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

see if you can spot the green 38.8 segment in that...

25


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

That's some fast looking rice vermicelli Chris.

Well done mate!

Looks like Claude has got home and dozed off after sailing about 356 km in one day [all on a carton of choc milk]!!

Elmo


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

How many Kilometers??????

 

If what you say is true then make sure he keeps the tracks for his Guiness world record

Hardie


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

358Surprised

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

you guys... I reckon it was more like 600 and if he didnt have to go off and play some other game later he would have pounded out another 200kms or more. Claude is a machine.

25


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Oh Gawd - what have I started - the Commissioners of Guinness will be on to me!

It's just my estimate given Claudes tenacity and capacity, and noticing how hard he was going at 8.00 am when I left!!!!!

Wait for him to post!!

Hardie


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Claude a Machine? Surprised I knew it, I knew it!!!!!! However, I think that disqualifies him, no humanoid robots allowed, we might have to deduct all Claude's sessions from the SRMWink

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

anyone got a metal detector?

evets


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

SurprisedSurprisedSurprised for the distance

SurprisedSurprisedSurprised for the speeds in the chop

SurprisedSurprisedSurprised for the 32kt nautical mile through biiig chop

Cool for the speed at which emoticons now appear on the GTC site!

Thanks for the images of where you sailed chris and Steve, I can see green numbers in the scribble, it illustrates realy well for me the angle to which I need to bear away, really is a long way from a reach (looks as though the wind was pretty much westerly and the speed runs head north east. Is that correct?

nebbian


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Slowie, to use images that are bigger than 700 px across, please click on the tree icon above, then click on the little icon to the right of image url, and follow the prompts to upload the image.

This resizes the image so it doesn't break the page layout...

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Cry

nebbian


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Almost forgot, congrats on some super speeds... I have no idea how you did that on the swan ocean Surprised

25


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Balls!

Elmo


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Furken huge Hard ones

Firiebob


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Awesome SurprisedCool

25


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Super efforts Chris and Claude, and Snides too.

The suspense was killing us Claude - sorry mate - imagination!

Melville Beach is the only decent place you can sail Perth [on slalom/speed gear] in a westerley ,or a few degees either side. It is a vicious choppy place at times, with about two miles of nasty river fetch. However, if you come unstuck you drift in to the grassy or sandy shoreline. Chris learned to sail there I think!

To go fast in these conditions you have to hook into a gust and drive deep through the troughs. It takes mental steel to do it and hold it all together in the biggest gusts. It takes even more to hold it for 1852m.

Great going team. I was at my desk when you were roaring!! Frown

PS - please dont bugger up the page anymore Chris - I have a zipper down the right of screen!!

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

me too!! I reckon its like a speed stripe

nebbian


WA
Australia
5789 days ago

Yay! No more speed stripes Cool