SA Speed Demons (SA, Australia) - 2019-01-12
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Chris Dimond
40.83(D)
38.717(D)
22.26(D)
23.806(D)
28.656(D)
98.046(D)
Kimba
31.12(D)
29.67(D)
12.85(D)
16.38(D)
23.6(D)
33.85(D)
Hamma
38.07(D)
36.576(D)
14.273(D)
17.904(D)
27.282(D)
33.101(D)
Chris Reiffel
Norman Clarke
Joe
Dave M
Dr Duck
Dazz
Kym Manning
Ricky Hamood
Kaz
Dee
Warren Mudge
PK
Hayden M
danny
Pineapple
Stan
Average39.4537.6518.2720.8627.9765.95
Chris Dimond (12320km):
1924 days ago
6 categories

Lake George, SA, AU

First day trip of the season. On the road at 5am, caught up with Des and Adam at Kingston, then out to the spit. Couple of kiteboarders there, and also great to meet Andy and Jill (windsurfinggear.com.au).

Forecast was only light (around 20 knots), but from the beginning it looked windy. Rigged 7.0R7 on iS97 with 33TribalWS and was totally overcooked. Back in and change to 27TribalWS with more downhaul. Still too much. Changed down to 6.2R7 on iS87 with 23TribalWS and off we go!! 

The water level is still pretty high, so most of the lake is choppy. I sailed from the spit up to the 5 mile, then up to the 3 mile, looking for flat water. Nuthin! 

The flattest patch was about the size of a bowling green just out from the Spit, but it was a total white out with foam, so it was often hard to find. A couple of squirts, and nice to see a 40 again on the lake.

It really is my favourite place!!



Kimba (8041km):
1924 days ago
1 categories

Quick arvo session down at Goolwa with the family in tow and the first for 2019.  First time on the Isonic 114(76 wide,2016) and it felt great straight off the bat; it fills the gap nicely between my 68cm and 83 cm boards as well as sails from 7-8.6m. The flat tail really allowed the fin to dictate the angle of attack and it felt nice and efficient. Gybing will take a bit more work as I am used to longer boards and the deck depression caused a few surprises.  I rigged the 6.9 as it was supposed to fill in but was a bit underdone in the end but had fun in the Goolwa chop dodging jet ski's.  Great to see about 10 sailors out.

Goolwa - Gusty Souith 15-20

Isonic 114 - M1 6.9 - SL2 38



Hamma (12022km):
1922 days ago
5 categories

Stansbury, FF 85 / M 47, EVO 9 5.6,20cm vector / 16cm 

Was in Edithburgh fishing for a few days and lucky I through a couple boards in.Thought I would rig the 5.6 as 20cm weed fin was my biggest for my slalom board and was just  to small.Then I smashed in on the razor fish. So then went out on the M 47 with a 16cm. Had some fun runs but just wasn't enough wind to get lit. Going to order some weed fins ! Was great to catch up with the bogans.



Comments
Boombuster


QLD
Australia
1924 days ago

Nice sailing there Chris.

Mark Jordan


NSW
Australia
1924 days ago

Hi Chris well done , hope to catch up in 5 weeks have you tried the kestral fin yet

Dave Morehead


TAS
Australia
1924 days ago

Nice one chris, great to get a 40 and your other numbers were all good! 

Hamma


SA
Australia
1924 days ago

Well done Chris ! I will  post when I can.

Kimba


SA
Australia
1924 days ago

A nice set of numbers there Chris. Sorry to bring the average down - until Anthony postsWink

I reckon we need a 7th category, km's travelled to sailing locations per session!

Chris Dimond


SA
Australia
1924 days ago

A rare day when the team sail and are able to post numbers! Hope you all had fun on the water.

dr cam


QLD
Australia
1924 days ago

Great numbers Chris Dimond-nice opening session for 2019 .

Hope to see you at LG sometime soon ...Cool

Tim -welcome back -itsbeen a while ...!!!Undecided

Unknown Location Bogan


SA
Australia
1924 days ago

Well done all :)

Jimbob


VIC
Australia
1924 days ago
Good to see you out Chris. I was the opposite and was in your city for the weekend. Glad you said how crap 98% of the lake really is as I keep saying it's Full but people just talk it up. Yeh only behind the spit and a small patch out the front any good and that's what Andy put in his video. Like drain M is still flowing in and water still in front lake.
Captain skip bogan


SA
Australia
1923 days ago

Well done Chris - kimba good to see you getting TOW 😎

Unknown Location Bogan


SA
Australia
1921 days ago

Good on your Anthony. Very good numbers. Hope you liked Stansbury and will be back :)