Boz (39135km):
2273 days ago Cottesloe, WA, AU
A bit of everything today at Dutchies, wind was still off shore at dutchies but with a sign of the seabreeze on the horizon, JJ decided to rig the foil and had a nice little session while Ken and myself were rigging, thinking that it would be a lightish seabreeze the trusty KAR 6.3 was rigged and Kenny on his 5.7. How wrong we were, the seabreeze kicked in straight at 20Knots and building to 25, Kenny did well to hold on I managed a few runs but soon realised I was going to come to grief if I stayed on the 6.3. Quite a few turned up in the meantime rigging 4.7 and 4.2 sails, changed down to the KAR 5.5 and had a blast, in control this time around and settling in for another epic session so I thought. There were signs of the wind easing off but it stopped fairly abrublty, most off us crawled in as the wind was starting to shift offshore apart from two souls still out on the wind shut down. Not too bad for one of the sailors about 30 metres of the groin he managed to eventually get back on the board and sailed in after about 30 min in the water, the other sailor not so good was out about 1.5 k's. We have a great bunch of water users a downwind sup we could see stopped to check on the guy but it seems that the windsurfer had already de rigged and was starting to paddle in, a couple of kiters managed to flag a guy in a dingy not realising the windsurfer was paddling in and went out to check on him, all good as the windsurfer was already half way to shore. Great to see everyone looking out for each other expecially when sailing open ocean no matter what water sport we choose to do.
Manta 61, KAR 6.3
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