Very gusty early start at Melville. Wind levelled out and picked up about 11 when I left.

First decent powered sail for some months - felt it! Sailing fitness can only be gained by sailing!

Better runs were on port tack, between the chop lines, heading down towards Majestic Point.

F2 SXS, 6.6 Koncept, 30 falcon

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safety bay

5.4 rss mk ii, 85 falcon 30 flying objects weedie and then i was really happy to discoverthat the 23cm ka/cl fin for my speedboard is right at home on this board too! even with th 6.2 race sail that i tried with it at the end of the day when the wind had backed off. the 6.2 rigged nicely on the ctm 400 bit the rss is best on the x6, i think its something to do with the diameter-therre wsa a line appearing at the back of the luff sleeve about in the top 1/3 of the sail great day down the with the exploding pelicans, adamson, darryl, slowie and adam. made up my mind today what i am bringing back from maui.:) good work slowie and darryl on busting out numerous 40's. its was very hairy out there at times so i dont think i would have opted for the speed board even if i packed it, which i didnt.

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Melville Beach, WA, AU

short fun sail with the kids waiting on the beach.

totally in survival mode, should of rigged the 'mythical' 4.4 which is buried deep some where in the trailer.

fun all the same, never managed to point and shoot today i saw no flat water which wasnt surprising as the tide was near its peak

...ended up miles upwind at one stage unable to bear away!

lots of respect To Rowen who was smoking through the washing machine with a 6.2!

xfire 80/falcon 28/evo2 5.5

a still from the gopro..

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Glory Holes, this spot has some potential a bit to mutch water and wind today!! respect to all those who had a go.

ca52 rsr5.4 f1 28

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Safety Bay, WA, AU

Got down there to see Darryl cleaning blood out of his car. Not a good look. Was waiting to see him dragging a roll of carpet next. Good effort for impersonating an ambulance. Sounds like it was a nasty injury.

It was blowing hard but the storm surge and high tide were making flat water non-existant. Adam pulled out his wind meter and in the short period he had it up it was hovering around low-mid 30s with gusts over 40 at times. Damn windy for WA.

I decided to visit the $250K dunny at the boat ramp to "freshen up" and discovered it was not well designed- despite it telling you how to do your business with some aweful music in the background. Perhaps they should have spent more time on getting the basic plumbing right because I ended up shutting it down for the day with what I'd consider a normal effort. Sorry guys.

Was taking my time because there was no way it was going to be easy to do anything resembling speed. Watched Ado on his 5m and Darryl on 5.6m having a go up in the dunny bowl but there was way too much north in the wind so it was running along the short section of sandbar- dead downwind.

I used the 5.5m EIII on the nude 46 from last year and KA23 sym, since I lent darryl my asy 23. I figured it would be a bit more stable in the ocean than the 42 which is designed more for flatter water. Had one go up in the dunny bowl and it was crap. There was no flat water. So I came back in and waited. Then I saw Darry'l have a go in the short patch of flat water on the end of the point and he seemed to get a good burst of accelleration so I thought I'd better have a go. First run managed a 40.5, which I thought was encouraging... next run I hooked a good gust but timed it with some nasty washing machine current on the entry which nearly sent me into orbit, but I saw a 30m patch of flat on the other side so kept it lit and steadied out on that for a few seconds before hitting some seriously nasty chop- again sending me into orbit. Was stoked to see a 41.5 on the dial, but decided rather than smashing up all my gear to wait and hope for the tide to drop, thus making the weed patch a viable run.

The tide was inching out so I decided to make the most of it before the wind died, so started venturing out over the breaking waves on the weedbank. Here I had much adrenaline and joy. Saw some good crashes. First Adam, and then Darry'ls epic wipeout. I think that sent the water level up a bit when he hit the water.

All up I got 12 run over 40 on the dial, and even managed a 37 coming back the other way to the carpark. On some of my fastest runs I was dodging pitching and breaking waves at the end. Awesome fun.

The the wind switched off pretty suddenly. At the carpark we heard a massive explosion accompanied by a loud buzz. I turned around and there was a big pelican flopping to the ground. The local takeway joint was eyeing it off for "extra large fried chicken breast" on the daily specials board, but they wouldnt have been able to cook it because the power line had also snapped thus taking out their deep fryer.

Great fun, awesome to see so much wind again. Its been a great month for speed.