Holy sh*t Chris!! That is amazing!!! #6 on alpha table!! Gotta be buzzing now

Huge Alpha Chris, well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy snappin f'ken Alpha poo!!!!!

Congrats Chris thats awesome

Killer alpha Chris.

Good to see Woodies serving up the PB's.

Well done Ado - You're on fire mate!!

Nice one Chris,,, thats a good jibe,,

I think we have to de- tune your gear before the Lancelin Ocean Classic,,,, he he

Awesome Alpha Chris

Fantastic Chris, that's a brilliant PB, congrats!

Well done Chris! Your gybes looked the goods out there!

That is one fantastic alpha Chris, you must be stoked. Do you reckon you can go any quicker?

Like the rest of the lads have said - awesome effort!

Great alpha, Chris!! You were really stickin em. If you have the time I would be interested to see your track (to learn from).

Nice speed too. Was that towards the end near the bar?

Saw one big stack at speed hope you are not too sore afterwards. Congrats on an awesome PB. Had hoped to get one myself but not going in fast enough.

Thanks guys

The best gybes were all done after sailing just downwind of the pontoon or whatever it is the baggers have put there - gybing close to the shore and then heading back out using the pontoon thing as reference point. Best alpha had a 32.85 max and only 12.66 min, but my second quickest one had a 20.4 min and 31.57 max.

well done ado smoking alpha!!

mr incredibile

great stuff Ado, well deserved

Very interesting seing the max and mins Chris, just shows how many variables we are trying to balance for a great alpha (not that I manage great alphas).

Hope to see you soon put together a 33 max and a 20 min and see what that adds up to

Hi Evets. I don't think the 33 max or the 20 min are too much of a problem at Woodies - but if you did that it would be very hard to get within the proximity, or otherwise your outward run would be pretty slow.

In answer to your first question, I think 27's are possible at Woodies if it is windy enough to use the 5.7 & weight jacket rather than the 6.3 and no weight jacket as yesterday. The 23cm fin I was using is not really big enough for maximum speed going square with the 6.3 so the extra speed will come on the reach in and out rather than the gybe. The water where I was gybing is so smooth it's like carving butter - the gybe really is the easy part.

Thanks for the insight Chris, I had never thought about the fin/ sail/ beam reach bit but I see what you mean. My fastest alphas have been high entry speed but that was off the wind and >50m proximity (so obviously not countning for the alpha division). High speed square sounds ideal to get the proximity and a high speed alpha.

26.13 is still a blisteringly quick alpha.

Ado hope you recover from the "whiplash alpha" soon - great work there .

Fantastic alpha, well done Chris.

superb Alpha Chris, well done