Shitty breeze alot of standing around waiting for a gust, Lake Bonney FF114 37 6.4

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Boggy Lake, SA, AU

7.8 mach 1 with 69cm JP 20knots

then  6.2 R8 with 59cm JP 25 knots

bloody choppy , please lets find a smooth piece of lake or am too spoiled with lake george and the murray mouth? hehe . bloody hard work today on very big chop until you got to the semi smooth stuff but I still wasnt gain to "send it" over the chop.

LG from the picnic area, W 0 to 20, bloody gusty crap again.

F2 stoke 117, 30 weedy, 5.8 KA Koncept.

well lets start the rant  what the bloody hell was I doing sailing from the picnic area in a bloody straight off shore westerly with 400 metres of bloody calm crap to the wind line. nearly F'en died getting in and out, well Jay a team mate was sailing there as he only has a crapy little corolla and woudn't drive anywhere else , packins or the spit would have been sweet as, ended up a top 5 shittest sail ever. NEVER again...........

Not gunna say anymore just gunna enjoy my wild turkey

Boggy Lake, SA, AU

Plenty of wind. Too rough for me .

Patrik 92 KA Race 6.3 then KA Race 5.5

Boggy Lake, SA, AU

Beginners blunders !! First time using my GW-60 and logged 2 sessions, problem was I couldn't log the 2nd session as it included my drive back to Adelaide !!! So I don't reckon the administrators would accept my 50+ knot average !! :)

Lake George, SA, AU. Met up with JB and I tagged along with him. After quickly heading into Beachport to get more water and dump rubbish, I returned to 5 Mile with him already rigged up and ready to go. Ok, we're sailing here today . So, Off we go. Being a Stansbury sailor, I used to wobbling out to the wind line 200m away. 5.5 Cheetah, Patrik 92 and 22 speedweed. Weed is nice and long (I'm guessing a metre ?), but water is very deep. Should be good in a few months.

So, I just followed JB, where ever he went, I went and we ended up in Bay next to Uncle Kevin's point. Sailing in there was ready good until I hit what I believe was a star picket. I went to look for it (to identify what I hit), but couldn't find it. This really gave me doubts (farmers do this at Boggy, but they are predictable locations). I stopped JB and told him. He wasn't surprised. So I tacked down wind to where the chop was, and sailed there for the remainder.

This is where I hit the metal object:

We did that until JB could not stand it any longer and called it a day. It was still better than Boggy IMO.

After coming in, JB recommended Packin Point, and so that's where I headed. I had a really good time there. There is a point where there is a pole/star picket, and I was coming in behind that where water was flat but still windy and doing full tint plane exit gybes out of that point. As me and JB discussed, it would be good if there was a metric on a good looking gybe (as opposed to a good Alpha).

With my fin damage, my fin kept on spinning out when bearing away (I nearly had on off the first time it happened). So, after putting up with that for a bit, I decided to fix it and then test it to make sure it's good for Stansbury. So, I took a small pair of scissors out of my car and planed the fin edge with them (while fin was in board). I tested it - tested ok. No more spin outs

Camping was really good. The rain put pressure on me to cook, set up swag and cooking etc was one handed (whiile holding an umbrella). I camped at three different spots and had a challenging time cooking in 30knot howeling wind. At my first camping spot, I had to cook my bacon and eggs in the foot well on my car LOL

https://www.ka72.com/Track/t/407872

Lastly, JB spotted that my Cheetah wasn't rigged properly. Sure enough, the marker wasn't calibrated. I recal'ed and it sailed better. Good pick up JB. Thanks