Swan River Mob (WA, Australia) - 2009-05-21
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Snides
39.92(D)
37.06(D)
7.69(D)
20.51(D)
18.14(D)
22.739(D)
Chris Adamson
40.48(D)
36.87(D)
7.64(D)
21.89(D)
19.41(D)
26.91(D)
Claude
34.892(D)
33.261(D)
15.53(D)
20.686(D)
24.431(D)
70.729(D)
Recycle
39.84(D)
37.16(D)
7.14(D)
16.56(D)
21.88(D)
17.67(D)
25
36.17(D)
34.34(D)
1.77(D)
17.28(D)
22.81(D)
25.546(D)
Slowboat
39.11(D)
37.031(D)
14.962(D)
22.625(D)
24.944(D)
100.08(D)
Stringer
32.603(D)
30.141(D)
13.974(D)
21.7(D)
23.389(D)
30.61(D)
Tim Stockton
Craig Mann
Dan Engdahl
Whitey
Matthew Langer
JC
Istaaack
Neil Daffen
Linds
Spock
Gav
Mick
SAM WILLIAMS
Lachy
Aiden
Aids
Average40.2037.1115.2522.2624.6985.40
Snides (28038km):
5451 days ago
3 categories

took a days leave due to a promising forcast and was lucky enough to get some of the wind promised!

i would say its prob been close to a year and half since i have actually thought about changing from a 5.0 to a 4.4 and i woulldnt call myself a heavy weight.....real wind at lastTongue out

it was good to get back on to srm turf at yo yo,s and get some (unusual) port tack sailing in.

wind was very square to the point where we where sailing back to where we started easily in hind sight it was pretty well set up for Alphas but that was the last thing on everyones mind....very happy to get a 40.23 on the clock face!

 

ca 40,kon 5.0,falcon 22



Chris Adamson (14466km):
5451 days ago
2 categories

Woooweee!!!

Took the morning off, and took the gamble of the adventurous option of a two hour drive southbound. I had originally planned to go Woodies, and in retrospect, glad I didn't.

Cheesegraters is a just like Kanaha in Maui, except a lot more thigh deep mud, rocks, revolting hyper-saline water, and no showers, lawn, palm trees, chicks in bikinis......but I digress.....what it did have today was very flat water, and plenty of wind. Sure, it was gusty and the course very square, but a bigger, better sailor than me could have got 43+ down there today, and that's prretty quick for WA.

Used the trusty Manta 49, KA Lockwood / McDougall 23 and KA Koncept 5.8, then changed down to the previously unused 5.0 when it picked up. At it's best it was too strong, even for the 5.0 (with 5kg lead) and my fastest run ended in a big stack which I believe Snides may have captured on video for your viewing pleasure.

GT31 x 2 display speeds 40.83 & 40.87.

Very happy to just pip my PB, and also stoked for the other PB getters...but I won't steal their thunder.



Claude (27896km):
5451 days ago
2 categories

Melville beach, lots of wind but very choppy due to storm surge made it impossible to get any decent runs.

ISO 86 , 6.1 CR , 29 F1.



Recycle (17196km):
5451 days ago
1 categories

Getting closer to that elusive 40 (trackpoint 40.64) yoyos has serious potential with a little more water

a great day and good turnout crasher living up to his name in style

sonic w52 ,rsr5.4 CL custom25



25 (14433km):
5451 days ago

Well done to Snides, Ado and Norts who rolled the dice and came up good. Well done to Crash from MM - cant wait for the vids and pics from Snides.

I sailed Point Walter from abt 3pm for a couple of hours - 10 to 25 kn - same effect as a cheese grater on the gonads!

F2 SXS 08 new [2nd hand] board!!, 5.8 Koncept 08, 30 F1 Falcon.



Slowboat (47716km):
5451 days ago
3 categories

mad day... started at Melville with super high tide and rough as hell. 6.6m SP53 and CL27S. The wind started to pick up a lot and I was getting smashed. Had a few lose-it moments and was looking pretty ugly on the water. So I came in and changed down to 5.8m. By the time I got out it was gusting over 40kts and just crazy rough. I got smashed again. Then the wind picked up for the main front and I crouched behind my board holding it all down as the hail and rain drilled my ears. After the front the wind promptly swung WSW so the convoy moved to Pt Walter. Unfortunately the wind also dissapeared. So it was back on the 6.6m SP53 and CL27s. Very hard to pick the gusts, and spent most of the time underpowered. Right at the end the wind seemed to come back a bit when it swung back to the west. Got a hugely powered barrelling run and lost it past the sandbar at 38kts according to the GPS. Glad that I got unhooked early on. After a few solid bounces it was all good. Went back in and took the 5.8m/SP44 for a burn. Very comfy in the increased wind but it was now way too broad... Looks like everyone had fun today! Maybe another ripper tomorrow.



Stringer (7685km):
5451 days ago
1 categories

half day off to sail melville with some other dudes who cbf'dgoing down south... damn lunchtimemeeting i couldnt get out of...*fart*

 

Isonic 86, 32CASLCL 6.7 RSSMkii



Comments
Elmo


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Onya Ado, Congratulations for the PBCoolCoolCool

awesome numbers thereCoolCoolCoolCool still can't believe you shrugged of your excursion.

Stringer


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

you knocked a poofteenth of your previous PB! well done... and thanks also for that visual picture of kanaha,... nothing like i remember it!

obi one tobi


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

nice work- i think a few PB's will be rolling in today...Laughing

Doddi


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Thats a good PB Ads. You were smoking out there today. Just spewing I forgot my camera.

Bender


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

nice numbers guys. Spewing i missed out

Chris Adamson


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Ooohh Snides - great PB and so close to the 40! I sat on 39.93 for six months so I know that feeling.

Firiebob


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Well done and congrats on the PB's Cool

Doddi


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Loved ya work snides. Send me ya pics an vid

Stringer


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

nice one snides, your a light heavyweight in my mind.

ODIN


South
Croatia
5451 days ago

nice one guys

lao shi


WA
Australia
5451 days ago
Congrats on the PB's guys. You made the right choice of location. So close Snides and Recycle but 40 on the dial is a huge milestone. Well done Chris on repeating and bettering your 40+
dr cam


QLD
Australia
5451 days ago

Great times Men -CHRIS A Well done !! Hope to see you at GISW in 4 weeks !!

Stringer


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

IVE GOT ONE WORD FOR YOU SNIDES AND RECYCLE- POOFTEENTH!

Snides


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

40.23 on the dial is enough for me!...peak speeds are nice but the real story is in the 5x10's as far as i'm concerned  and there wasnt a pb there for me today..Frown

Crash i will post pic and vid when i can find the card gadget

Hardie


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Snides I saw you riding on the last 10cm of your board, looked bloody fast, and yeh I would take the 40 on the dial anyday, that's the buzz seeing the big 40 on your display!!!  May never happen for someFrown, so when it does, soak it up!!!!

25


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

I would have killed for the stinking ooze, the so f#*king hypersaline water [that it makes you puke if you ingest it], the long walk to the water, the gustiness, the rain etc etc.

Great work guys - who dares wins!! Enjoy the moment.

nebbian


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Lookit all them PB's!

 

Fantastic work, all of you!  I'm stoked Laughing

Elmo


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Well done there Steve and John, mongrel about not getting the full 40, but great dial speeds non the less

evets


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

well done Steve, Ado and John.

John thanks for again showing me what the W52 is capable of: I cannot wait to get going again.Cool

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
5451 days ago

Well done on the PB's, great speeds.

Vando


QLD
Australia
5451 days ago

well done guys on the pbs awesomeCool

Sammy the snail


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

awsome job guys Cool,very happy for you Snides its just show me that even a light weight can do it! I wish I was there! I actually never sailed that spot and was waiting for the DAY and today missed out Cry

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

go team GO!!!! 40s galore!!! Great to see you guys got some rewards for the mission. How nice is that water. I miss the joy of that stuff getting into the cuts and eyes...

Snides


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

cheers guys...the water in preston is unbelievably salty...i did a bail out and swallowed a bit of it and it took me a couple of minutes of coughing and sluttering and eye rubbing to get going again. when i hit the beach i doubled over and had a small chuckTongue out

ado's eyes where a shocking red!!!Surprised this aspect of yo yo's was definetly the hardest thing to contend with for me anyway!

i havent got my cable for the camera here so i will try and post from work in the morning...a pic of crashers R&D testing for maui sails booms and a short long distance vid of ado stacking it at the end of his 40 run (apologies in advance for the laugh Ado!)Laughing

roodog


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Well done  slowest and Claude you guys are the cement of the SRM, 100, and 75 kms in 30/40 hats off, to you 2

Big offfs to day nice jumps Claude

Chris you are insane, Almar st is looking for you, 38 plus in two plus chop , insane , 

roodog


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Well done to all the crew at SRM , pb's plus 

Do we in the west have jobs

Sick_em_rex


NSW
Australia
5451 days ago

Awesome speeds by all of you. I think this is the first session I've seen when Slowie wasn't the fastest so bigger congrats to Ado, recycle and Snides!

Just as an adjunct, is there a theory that the high salinity of cheesegraters water contributes to better flotation and therefore higher speeds??? And also, if you think that's muddy crappy water come sail in Narrabeen Lagoon one dayTongue out

Mineral


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Snides, Recycle and Chris, Bloody awesome, particularly in that crap pond, well done guysCool

Great day out for SRM, well done. (you buggers got real jobs or whatWink)

Chris Adamson


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Great sesh team, but we're still 3rd. Time to turn our attention to hours and miles.

JF


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

What is yoyo'sUndecided I was at fatso's - aka my deskCry

lao shi


WA
Australia
5451 days ago
Wow, Chris that is a set of numbers for todays conditions. Working on getting that fitness back! And what a set of team numbers for a work day in winter!!!
Tim Stockton


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

Congrats to all you guys on the PB fest! Although i think anyone with a 4.4-5.0 would have been hitting 45's if theyd sailed the squall at creery XD.

As my speeds wont count and it takes 15min to start the comp with realspeed >< ill post later.. probably after a sess tomorrow or on sat. For all those wondering where the F*(& creery is heres a lil GE image. Run shown was in about 30kts wind, NW-NNW. Peak of 39, avg 36. line shows fast section of run. Whats nice about sailin here is that the shallowish water keeps te chop down enough to allow reasonable bear-aways, whichwas nessacary with the square angle today.

For sam: we really should have tried your  run in the middle. had a look on GE and its much better than i previously thought. AND ON STARBOARD!!!!! might have been a little underwater today though. you should give it a shot if you get out tomorrow as the depth should still be pretty good.... not often that the water would be high enough to sail in there. plus you could check out that other run at the same time :D  

Slowboat


WA
Australia
5451 days ago

I'm glad some of the other SRMers made the effort to do the drive down there! Good onya lads for boosting the SRM pointage. I gave it a miss for the reasons elmo suggested- and I would have had to have negotiated those traffic hazards identified by the "MH" numberplates. But it seems like it was the place to go today for speed action. The wind angle at cheesgraters needs to be spot on since the bank is so straight. So I figured it would be a short and violent mission down there, with all the fun sludge to deal with. Bugger that. Unfortunately the wind backed off heaps back here on the swan river after the front came through- otherwise Point Walter would have been going off for speed. Direction was spot on for a few hours. Maybe tomorrow... still plenty of wind forecast.

Warrior


North
Croatia
5450 days ago

WOOOW

respect to adamson for 40+

respect to snides and recycle - so little missing over 40, ufffffffff

excelent guys, that's what i call real team work, cheers from croatia

BTW, I also informed my memberz about this excellent PB's, here at my site http://windsurfing-koprivnica.net/comment.php?comment.news.2085

 

CHEERS

Terry A


Sth Is
New Zealand
5450 days ago

Great numbers guys.  I,m thinking living in WA wouldn't be a bad idea.    

Weather for Christchurch  Fri   high of 8 with sleet and hail   snow on the port hill  .  Roll on Maui.  

See you in Maui Chris

JC


WA
Australia
5450 days ago

WEll done team. Good to see a number of you have the option to get out when its windy Smile unlike me Yell - need a change in career....

well done on all the PB's

hope to get out SAturday morning

 

 

Snides


WA
Australia
5450 days ago

Laughing

the ado stack..once again sorry for the laugh!

Sammy the snail


WA
Australia
5450 days ago

ah ah ah, I love the laugh Laughing and the spot!! mmh cool, shame the movie is not longer!!

Chris Adamson


WA
Australia
5449 days ago

It's nice to hear in the sound track that there is so much concern and sympathy!

Elmo


WA
Australia
5449 days ago

I can't blieve you just shruged it of Chris, that was a fair sized hit, didn't displace as much water as Crasher but still very impressive

Chris Adamson


WA
Australia
5449 days ago

It wasn't so bad - I had already unhooked coz I knew it was coming after spinning out. It's the sudden ones that get you when you are still hooked in that do the damage - like Crasher's. I saw the big man go down in vivid detail right before my eyes and it was hideous!

Marin


North
Croatia
5449 days ago

OMG, what a crash, and healthy reaction in  the background Tongue out. I haven't crashed at speed for a long time (thank you God), but last time it was pretty funny, with rolling on the water for some 10-15 meters, nice soft crash, not like this one :D...

Great session guys and awesome speeds, congrats to everybody..

Gmac


QLD
Australia
5449 days ago

Big PB's guys..respect to all  :)