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Belmont Bay (Slipways), NSW, AU Foil Evo, 7.0 OD fantastic day out cruising until I caught up with Greg and we went searching for ice rink conditions but was hard, got pretty windy at times, joined later by Andy --- Oh and some chick on a slapper

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Coal Point, NSW, AU, South 12-18

Stingray, Whisperer and 5.5m

Great session, I love foiling with the 5.5m

Did a few nice alphas and I think that NM might be a PB!

Valentine, NSW

Falcon 136 SB Foil GTR+ SS 8.0

6-12 SSW with a 15min squall of 18 kts

Interesting late arvo session first time on the smaller back up board. Forgot to change my mast base nut that I stripped out last weekend. Tightened ok rigging but broke in the water off Bolton Point. Floated to shore and luckily one of the local residents had an old one under his house! Headed off again but wind dropped to marginal. Enjoyed the smaller board despite not being foiling specific. Easy to gybe!

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Coal Point, NSW, AU

5 - 12kts occ patch 10-13kts SW first few hrs then patchy 5- 15kts occ patch 15-20 SSW - SW Coal Point, NSW, AU

 I used the Norah graph as I think it's a bit more like what we got at Coal.

 7.5m GT Turbo- WT64 ( 112ltres)- 33cm select pointer

I got out early as I thought once it swung more S the storms and rain offshore would come in. I should have waited as by the time it swung a bit and came in I was buggered..

First few hrs were more consistent but less wind. I could only just get going in the gusts , I soon wore out trying to bounce the board onto the plane and often the gust wasn't long enough to be worth the effort.

Sunny and  quite pleasant , I had to drop in a few times to cool off in the 3-4 -5mm.

It just started to get a bit stronger in the gusts and Lyds came across and Greg and Andrew joined him foiling.

I was stuffed..

It was tempting to put a larger fin in as I couldn't press on it much until I got some speed but it was great once powered up.  I almost put the 36cm in ( a lot of 10-12kts ) but I'm glad I didn't as it kicked in 15-20kts. I was a bit concerned with the big sail but everything was great in the gusts.

 The board was terrific in the overpowered conditions..

I got some advice from Neil after my flighty moment last sail. I changed from a 39 to a 33cm fin, put the front straps a hole further forward and the boom lower. I also put the tail on half flex to depower it..I was underpowered a lot so I sailed with my rear foot in front of the rear strap most of the time.

 In the strong stuff I could really feel the benefits of the wider stance it felt so controlled..I think I'll make it even wider.

Looking forward to some more powered sailing when I'm fresh..

 Put the go pro on but it had run out of battery by the time I got to the best stuff..

I don't feel very sailing fit...