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Budgewoi Lake, NSW, AU

YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Nice sess, first real summer sess for us, great fun

good to c ya all, c ya all soon

Middle Creek Reserve, NSW, AU

Fun quickish arvo in the sun but very gusty shifty wind and bit choppy. Pretty hard to string any decent runs together but had a couple of squirts later on. Few guys out today so a bit of company. I really hope this is a sign of a good spring and summer with sea breezes. Water has warmed up considerably as I went in a few times and was pleasantly surprised.

Falcon 112, Evo V 7.8, F/O Weedster 32.

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Kyeemagh, NSW, AU

A quick blat for the maiden voyage on my new RRD XFire 90. I rigged for the forecast, (Koncept 6.6 and BP TypeR 35 fin) not the conditions, which caught me out a bit as I was doing a fair bit of very underpowered sailing. But we all know how it is....new toy, you just HAVE to get it wet.

Anyway, I was blown away (no pun intended) by how good it was to sail. Totally different to my Falcon. A lot more volume under the backfoot made it feel like I was riding higher in the water but that inspired confidence for some reason. Where my Falcon felt nervous in rougher chop and tended to bounce off the chop, the XFire just blazed a rock solid trail through it. Thye biggest difference though was the gybing. What a cracker!! Whether it was the cutouts (of which I have never owned a board that has had them before) or just a totally different board and shape, it just turned on a dime and powered away. Even in chop which is something I never managed to master very well on my Falcon.

It was gorgeous out on the water with quite a few guys out taking advantage of our early Nor Easters. Rick was FLYING on his new gear and will no doubt be a few knots faster peak than me but then that's nothing new 

Bring on Summer, it's gonna be a doozie 

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Kyeemagh  NNE 15-20 knots

Fanatic Falcon 112   North Warp F2016 7.7   Tectonics Fury 38

First day on the new gear, plenty of tuning to do. Awesome fast though.

Nice new NE breeze with Rexy. And later some drag racing with Remi.