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Much better than I was expecting! A great cruise at Pt Walter in solid and consistent wind. The tide was way too low to get anywhere near the bank, and some submerged rocks were a concern so I stuck to the freeride board even though I would have gone a lot better on the speed board. Sun was out and no kites in sight. A great couple of hours. A new speed and alpha record on this board!

F2 Ride 277; 6.6 koncept; MFC 32cm (now with munted leading edge)

Pinnaroo Point , WA, AU

Arrows 6m, Kinetic Centurion 120L(?)

What  a day.  Tried Greg's board and realised I was too ambitious with my skills when I thought I could handle a smaller board.

Only got it going twice, the rest was dragging, falling in, waterstarting.

I did a walk od shame twice, the second time got bitten by a cobbler, just to wrap up a bad day.

I used all the appropriate meds (2 grappas) and 1 parecetamol, keep my leg in a hot water. still, hurts like hell...

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yeeahaa back on the water finally!! Just a quick one down at peli pt after work

Sonic 85, Ram 6.3, Goldwing 32

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Turned out a nice day. Disappointed early this morning with the lack of wind. Decided Woodies was probably best chance.

Ended up a pretty good session on the West end of the point. Ventured round the north side once but it was way too shallow. Some good little runs just south of the west tip. 

Slowy was doing silly speeds as per usual. Had a quick go on the Nude 54 and it is a very different beast to what I am used to. Found the board got planing surprisingly easily for such a narrow tail. Certainly handled the chop with no dramas. Didn't feel I was fully powered up enough to really test it out. (6.3 as opposed to Slowy on a 7) interesting. Thanks for the go Mr Boat.

Ended the day with a quick outing on the waveboard to try and get used to it for the Gloo.

Wind was cold but the sun was out and even though the kites are now using the west side too it was still a top day.

Warp 6.3, sonic 100, elmo 29 weedy.

Sorry to hear you got cobbled, Obelix.

Nice numbers on old Yella, Chris. Sorry I didn't join you but I thought it might be a touch shallow.

Well that was fantastic!

Starboard Acid 80, Select 25 wave fin, with brand new Ezzy 5.2 Wave Panther 2 

I desperately needed to sort out the brakes on my car this weekend, so after managing to get the hub assembly off and into pieces on my workshop table, I discovered that the piston was stuck in the caliper... This would normally mean a week without my car so was pretty annoyed.  Anyway to cut a long story short somehow I bodgied it all back together and had a top sail!

Wind was a good 18 knots at the start, and picked up to a solid 25 knots by the time I called it quits... how much fun can one man have in a day?

Good to meet Obelix and get completely blown away by Pointman, he was flying out there!  I didn't care, the new sail duck gybes very nicely 

Also snides rocked up unexpectedly, sorry you couldn't get a windsurf in today mate.

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Great sesh at Pinnaroo in a surprisingly strong seabreeze.

Easy 20-25K for a while there.  Tried out my new 2009 7.4 KA Koyote.  Pretty controllable early on, got to be a bit of a handful when it picked up to 25K for a while!

Flying with the F111 + 40 Choco.  Got my peak on this combo.

Plugged in the S-Type + 31 JP weedie for a while, which made things a bit more manageable, but eventually my arms were getting pulled out of my sockets and I had to concede I was overpowered and change down to my 6.4 Koncept.

Sailed another 45 minutes on the S-Type + 6.4.  Tacked up to the breakwater and sailed a couple of nice broad reaches back to base.  The breeze had backed off some and by the end I was barely powered on the 6.4.

Fantastic sesh. Felt like summer, except it was bloody cold.  Nebs was in boardies....whatta freak.