United Speedsailors of America (USA, United States of America) - 2017-05-25
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Peter
30.83(D)
28.37(D)
7.01(D)
19.65(D)
19.59(D)
14.56(D)
Nina
29.2(D)
24.61(D)
2.12(D)
17.96(D)
0(D)
5.25(D)
denisspb
32.219(D)
30.136(D)
18.758(D)
18.468(D)
28.485(D)
103.601(D)
Bill
Flad The Inhaler
Dani Sfeir
Sabah Daaboul
Cesar SpeedSeeker
Bart Kornas
Dean Withrow
Boro
Nikita
Speedy
Martin Schauer
Pollock
CdnGuy
Jon Shell
Alsosnoff
gonzalo
o-livier
Drew
LarryD
Mike
TBob
AlexG
Chris
Max
Chris Forenbaher
gregg s densmore
RS SSP
julo49
Kipps
Average31.5229.2512.8819.0624.0459.08
Peter (48215km):
2499 days ago
2 categories

East Bay, Osterville, Cape Cod. Light rain and 55 F, but we had not seen good wind in a while, so I got Nina to join me. Wind was a bit too northerly to be great, but it was still fun. Nina had a spectacular catapult, hitting her head on the mast, after which she needed 10 minutes to get started again. I had just paddled out to her on my board when she finally got back up. She decided not to tempt fate and stopped windsurfing, and I stopped shortly afterwards. The wind was going down, anyway.

Funny to see Nina crash big time just going in a straight line, in the foot straps and harness. Probably was a combination of being over-finned, using a waist harness, and hitting a big gust. This crash looked more dangerous than her usual crashes when she tries Flakas, Vulcans, or Switch Konos. But she is fine, already talking about beer at 3:30 in the afternoon.



Nina (9713km):
2499 days ago

East Bay, Cape Cod. Just started to have fun on Falcon 89/RB 5.6/32 when a big catapult cut the session short. Time for it to warm up - summer is freestyle time!



denisspb (9772km):
2495 days ago
4 categories

Washoe Lake, NV, US

Manta 115L, 7.5 koncept, Select S12 39cm

GPS testing day 2:

Something is definitely wrong at least with my watch, today I saw some big numbers on the screen again, it wasn't over 70 kts but still was showing max speed 39 and 42 kts. When I tried to download log to my computer Windows shut down two times, then I tried to upload on KA72 the biggest file of two for today and looks like it still wasn't a full session. I'll try to do it again when I'll have time to see all the numbers.

For now, I'm posting my session from GT-31 it seems pretty accurate to me.

Boris, don't know if you are done racing in France or not, but so you don't feel bad trying to do two 40km races a day I've made 2.5 races nonstop.Wink

Could go for more but I ran out of wind and daylight and my gear couldn't handle that, lost one fin screw and snapped harness line, that just killed my forearms in the end.  At least no swimming.

 Finally, I was able to upload my full session from GW-60 at KA72, here are the numbers, pretty much all of them slightly higher and it wouldn't look suspecious if I only sailed with GW-60:

2 Second Peak (kts): 33.625 
5x10 Average (kts): 30.136 
Top 5 5x10 speeds: (1) 31.109 
Top 5 5x10 speeds: (2) 30.346 
Top 5 5x10 speeds: (3) 30.261 
Top 5 5x10 speeds: (4) 29.545 
Top 5 5x10 speeds: (5) 29.422 
1 Hr (kts): 18.835 
Alpha 500 (kts): 18.658 
Nautical Mile (kts): 28.748 
100m peak (kts): 31.665 
Total Distance (km): 104.819 


Comments
Barton


W
United States of America
2499 days ago

Nina, hope you are doing OK. 

I'm paranoid about head-hits. Due to poor medical attention on Bonaire for high blood pressure, my wife was mis-medicated resulting in four major convulsive seisures, and a fall that caused a Traumatic Brain Injury. That was in 2012, she has only partially recovered from the TBI and seizures. The TBI has forever drastically changed our lives (and not for the better). This is my soapbox rant for wearing helmets when speedsailing to mitigate potential TBIs ...

Nina


USA
United States of America
2499 days ago

Barton, I'm fine - just a lump on the head, a swollen ear, and only a slight headache.

Sorry to hear about your wife!

You are right, a helmet would have been better today. I stopped wearing one when I had a bad crash with a helmet on that I thought made the whiplash way worse than it would have been without the extra buoancy. Now I have an opposing experience where the helmet would have been better, so I guess it is time to wear one again...

denisspb


USA
United States of America
2495 days ago

Nina, glad you doing okay after that crash. First time I sailed with a helmet I catapulted and hit the mast so bad it was ringing in my head for next 30 minutes, I took it as a sign and started to wear a helmet every time since when except super light wind and cloudy conditions (my bold head needs sun protection as well).

Peter


USA
United States of America
2495 days ago

Denis, you swim too much! The 33.6 knots top speed that ka72.com reports is another spike while your speed is about 0. Even GPS Action Replay catches this one, because the HDoP values are high - something I have not seen often! We are talking with Dylan to improve the ka72.com software to handle your data better. Until then, use GPSResults to analyze your GW-60 data, and the numbers will be just fine.

Here's a screen shot that shows your SDoP values max out:

denisspb


USA
United States of America
2495 days ago

What can I say, I love to swim a little and cool down during the session. Smile

Next time I'll try to sail with both units in the same bag on my arm.