First trip to Woodies. Looked promising on the way there - a steady 20kts at Garden Island. Alas it faded and I only got two runs before it was difficult to plane. Great to get wet.  Not so great to find out how unfit I am.

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Short morning session at Woodmans Point then Melville after lunch. Both sessions JP Slalom V 68 RSS III 7.8 Tomcat 40. The water state and weed, not to mention lightish wind, made Woodies pretty unfavourable for anything other than clocking up a few kilometres. Melville was a lot easier going although I was mainly sailing across the wind and didn't bear off very often. Lots of people were out which spurred me along.

Sooo unfit my favorite old NP carbon Boom broke just cruising along and snap on the other side from windward.

I wont say how long I was out sailing to clock up 25 k's, but the 1 hour sort of tells the story

Great to see a good number of the crew all out playing

Top new PB James, and thanks for hanging onto my boots

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Morning session at Woodies with James. Got about 5 miles in before boom broke. Saw you out Patrick as I drove home sorry I missed you. Good to see you out on the water.

Afternoon session at Melville with a GPSTC cast of thousands.

Good to see Chad and hope you can get back out on the water soon. Mineral, James, Chris and Marcel out on the water.

Wanted to back up James' hour from the morning so took The Battleship out. First half hour was good and then the farken stink boat timetriallers came out. Crazy waist high chop coming from three different directions. Not fun.

Koncept 7.5, definitely more top end than the KRX but not as springy for pumping on to the plane. Battleship 84cm and select monster weedy.

Thanks James for the boom loan and well done on an awesome hour for those conditions.

Fun session at Melville. Crazy chop!

Not all that serious today as I was punishing a work-mate by teaching him how to windsurf.

Well done Mark and James. Hoiked us up a place!!!

Naish SP91; Stealth 6.4; CL SL31cm