Mandurah Mob (WA, Australia) - 2019-06-22
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Elmo
29.683(D)
27.067(D)
5.817(D)
11.347(D)
17.894(D)
15.09(D)
Decrepit
28.042(D)
25.239(D)
7.836(D)
14.699(D)
19.652(D)
19.535(D)
fangy
22.524(D)
15.583(D)
5.34(D)
6.365(D)
16.831(D)
17.327(D)
Hardie
Binny
Bugs
Bender
Firiebob
man of
Sammy the snail
Pepe47
evets
SluGger
Bully boy fat Basil
ratz
otts
Oaf
(Mu-) fin
Shane121
WazzaYotty
Morts
Mad Max
TOBYchef
Jonski
Swindy
remery
Auz
waricle
Greggo
Frank
Rayman
Rocky
Hammer
Lombok
The Scud
Stingray
Rob
Sam
Scud
Average28.8626.156.8313.0218.7718.43
Elmo (31413km):
1742 days ago

JP SLW & JP Weed 42cm, JP Slalom 71 & Pepe weed 27cm, NP RSR E6 7.8m.

In hind sight propably should have gone foiling, but it is what it is.

Well the warm front didn't deliver as forecast apart from it bucketing down outside now.

First sail for over 5 weeks and a very nervous one as I've had a nerve pinching in my shoulder for around a month now and I was concerned that if ity went off when I was powered up things could get very messy.

Everyone had rigged 5-6's I wasn't hanginmg around fore the stronger stuff so I went with the 7.8m thunking I coulfd get going with the 71.....I was wrong, I chugged out to Fangy who was finally chugging back after an extended stay at the point, Hey, what orange and lays flat in the water? Fangy's sail waiting for wind.

So I chugged back and thought bugger it, time to risk the big girl.

Risk is the right word as I only had fin bolts for a 42cm weedy in a place where a 30 is generally seen as to big, so I was a bit more apprehensive about coming unglued with that as well.

But my concerns were unfounded and I got 3 nice out and backs before I went in for a break.

The wind looked like it had picked up so I stuck on the 71 once again, and managed to get it going, got my peak speed gybed only to have to chug back.

That was the end of me.

Fun day out, surprisingly warm, great crew out offering their full support to Fangy's dillema and lack of movement. Shame about the skunking but most got their groove on so not all that bad.

Winds hammering in now

 



Decrepit (54483km):
1742 days ago
3 categories

Boombas, 6.2koncept 53cm board 26cm #45 weedy. (also rigged but not used 5.4koncept, 48cm board with 23cm 40/60 weedy.)

Was hopping to use the small gear, but Hui wasn't playing, so rigged the big stuff and had a go on that, not a lot of planning was done! But lots of chat, Pinnas were over represented again with 4 sailors, CST had one keen member, (guess who) and MM managed 3 on the water + a late arrival who rigged but wind died before he could hit the water.

Did I say I loved GPSspeedreader, not only does it do a great job of analysing the data, it auto loads here and makes great coloured pencils of tracks and results.

 

Of course the wind followed the forecast, right up to the time it was suposed to pick up, and we were anticipating launching. But instead of going up it went down, right up to the time we got home in the dark.



fangy (22667km):
1741 days ago
1 categories

I decided to do my own Dark Mofo swim/sail today. Having listened to the combined assembled Pesky Brains Trust I rigged a sail fit for a gale. I then drifted a nautical mile or two to escape being subject to Tim’s jokes,Boz’s toes, and Strops internal struggles on whether he should warm up his wettie.

 

I had borrowed Pacey’s SB 72, but then found that he had the the foot width of a pixie. Boz convinced me that having no feeling in your toes was no problem, especially after they turned black from frost bite and fell off, so I went sans booties. The only problem with this cunning strategy was that after a half hour of drifting my feet were frozen to the deck of the board, and my planned gybe became a complicated affair of trying to sail backwards.

 

The water around the point was super smooth and clear. Mainly because the wind was somewhere else. But I had a chance to have a little walk around on the point itself. The area is a thin layer of silt over limestone, much like the reef itself. It continues past the point toward the SSW, I don’t know how far. The star pickets near the point might indicate the shallowest/rockiest section, but yesterday it was still well over 3/4 metre deep.

 

Knowing the Peskys would now be missing me greatly and on the verge of either sending out a search party or not giving a sh!t, I decided to drift back in. After several several months I had almost made it and was on having a cracker nauti run when own team muppet, Elmo drifted out to do his best to stuff up what was going to be a PB mile.

 

Of course as soon as I made it back the breeze picked up enough for everyone to have a crack. I joined them and drifted around for another session. The rain also joined in and I was having a great time of drifting around some more and trying to figure if indeed I had any sensation below the knees. Eventually, I decided that I had partied hard and it was time to go in and check on whether Strop had decided to warm his wettie. The GrandNanna of meteorology was still sitting around looking like a thug Nanna, but when Johnski turned up to do the night shift, I knew it was time to chuck it in. 

 

Top Ten Car Heater on the Toes Home sort of day :-).

 

Here is the crayon drawing from Peter's GPS Speedreader jus to show how awesome my day was..

 

 

 

 

 
 



Comments
Boz


WA
Australia
1742 days ago
Elmo, just seen 30+ down your way, pity we all missed it by a couple hrs😁
SluGger


WA
Australia
1742 days ago

Great going fellas,  tough conditions,  ill catch up Mike about GPS speedreader

STROPPO


WA
Australia
1741 days ago
Nice read Ross 😎