Decrepit

NickName

Decrepit  

FullName

Mike Layzell  

SailNumber

 

Age Division

Legend (60+)  

Gender

Male  

Description

For the last 20 years or so, I've thought of myself as a wave sailor,

 

but that appears to be changing.

(Edit April 2010, just updated the above pic, think I'm still a wave sailor, even though I'm wearing a GTC rashy)

 

Don't think I can call myself a speed sailor yet, with only 35kt on the clock, but I'm heading in that direction.

Photo to come after somebody takes it.

(Edit) a year or so later, I've impoved the 35 to 36, but still not sure about being a speed sailor????

(edit edit, 13.11.2010)

After our trip to Sandy Point, I've now got some great pics, but still haven't done any better than 36!

And I discovered there that, you have to be in the high 30s to be a speed sailor.

Well hopefully I can crack the 70 Km/h before I'm 70.

Thanks to Jody of whitecaps photgraphy, here's my Sandy Point pic.

 

 26 June 2012, just tried out my new 43cm board, really like it, so it's now my avatar.

 

 February 2013

Due to a fantastic holiday in Beachport, I've achieved my 70km before I'm 70, the 43cm board lived up to expectations, got a 39.13 2sec with Daffy's old 4.4 plugged into it. So now I guess I'm a speed sailor, certainly haven't been doing very much wave sailing lately.

 

December 2015,

I've recently been introduced to the value of using SDoP to determine record accuracy so I've gone through all my PBs.

The only one with a cloud over it, (avery big black one) is the 2009 alpha. Back then I was using a GT11 and the recomended method was to use trackpoints for alphas, so that's what my PB alpha is. Proccessing it with doppler only gives a 24.968.

So my real PB is the next one down, (25.405, hopefully I can change that real soon, only quarter of a knot to go).

HEY!! 23/1/16 managed a 26.405 at PT Grey, great flat water with no weed on the surface allowed me to do 30kts in the entry leg, 33kts into the gybe, 14kts at sail flip, then back to 28kts during the exit.

 

2.2.22 Is there some significance  in these numbers? Anyway, it is significant for me!. Finally broke into the 40kt club. Fantastic session at Lilacs, where every thing aligned for me, 5.2speed, 48cm board and 17cm@50deg weedy, was a great combo. Water was dead smooth to micro chop, wind was a bit gusty, it was one strong short gust that just lasted long enough for the 2s to get the 40.132. max was 40.45 and 10s was 36. something. Fortunately there were enough runs where the wind lasted long enough for the 5X10 PB.