thanks Hardie, I also saw a stake poking about 50mm above the water at the southern edge of my tracks. I will try to find it tomorrow morning and put a white pipe on it. If hit at speed it could cause nasty injury/ damage.

Well Done to Bender, Sam and Decrep on their Marathon effort in very marginal conditions , till the end when it really filled in.  At the very end it almost became good speedsailing conditions but everyone was to exhausted to exploit it.

waiting with great interest to see the results

I know what they are............ Glee Glee

its hard waiting to see how the rest of the mob did on a day when you don't sail with them

Let's just say the boys were in a lot of pain when they finished, so if any team wants to beat the boys distance for this month, they're in for a BUCKET LOAD OF PAIN

Nice work Bender! Save some energy for Cervantes mate! Wiesbier and rye bread and Fraulines and all that stuff!

I'll second that 25

Congrats Bender and Sam, great work, especially on an empty tummy Sam!

Sam with big files and realspeed you have to be very patient, it takes ages to work out the 1hrs, just let it go for it, make yourself a cup of tea, and just wait for it.

Big day guys! Well done, Bender, long day on the Pong! Good to see you clocking up some k's decrepit. Hope that the hands  are ok tomorrow.

Well done on the distance guys ...

Well done Guys, huge effort.

If you have a look at the wind graphs you can tell pretty much when my customer decided he wanted the gaskets made which he should have ordered Thursday.

Did a bit of exploring on the way home and had a look around Creeepy crawlies and a bit further east, definately a bit more wind there and some longer runs without having to work up wind. Next solid easterly I would recommend giving that a go as the wind will most likely be a bit more consistant.

Huge result for a gusty easterly, well done Bender, Sam and Decrepit.

I logged on to XP (I use Vista normally and got a dual boot system) installed the program, deleted some divisions to lite the reading of the file and managed to read the data !!! still have to do the Alphas, it look like the program is strugling to open them!!

you did a GREAT job today Bendy , you look like terminator on the water and was just hammering on your big board. Top job.. Lancelin should not be to hard for you I recon!! I really enjoy passing those hours with you today mate. its been long since have sail together. good time good time

I dunno bout terminator sam but every time we crossed paths today you were grinning like wallace in Wallace and Grommet

ah ah ah very funny Elmo, eh Ben I was doing this face cause I was having a good time... eeh who is the Alpha king today?? Just notice the time on the data, the Alpha was done with your board Ben!

Sam is!!, Nice one mate!

All hail Alpha King SAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Top effort mate

Hey Sam and Bender I find it interesting how close our results are,

not really Mike, it's more you and me , Bendy is up there

I was thinking the same Decrepit

Hey Bendy great distance mate, well done

Even thouigh you have pushed me further down the individual distance rankings you basket

harder to pick than a broken nose