GPS Team Challenge - Pinnaroos (WA, Australia)

Awesome session today, high tide made the run a nightmare but managed to squeeze a few gooduns out of it. Happy with the pb's. No alphas today as I was absolutely overdone on the 5.4 Great day!!

Sonic 85, Ram 5.4, 28 FO Weedster

Pointman (25522km):

5104 days ago

2 categories

Woodies.

Pretty solid, prolly gusting to around 27-28K.

Had fun, but not overly stoked with the numbers . I was on the CA47 + 6.4 Koncept + 23 KA assy for the speed.

Combo felt OK, but only got one decent peak. Seemed to be hitting a wall at 36-37K, not sure why.

High tide, so the strip was great, and I was sailing very close to the shore. Quite a lot of South in the breeze, so maybe it was a tad too square?

Plugged in the 93 S-Type + 32 Goldwing at the end to bust out some Alphas. Disappointed with the result. Nailed some sweet gybes, but I was pinching too high on entry (my entry speed was only 21K on my best one). Shame cos it was primo for alphas and the gybes were like a hot knife through butter. Just had my geometry all screwed up

Well done to Snake and Lao on the PBs. You guys certainly made the most of the conditions!

lao shi (41082km):

5104 days ago

4 categories

Big day at Hardie's 2 PBs. Woohoo!

Arrived early and it was windy. On the water by 7.30 and put in a solid hour in a moderate southerly. By 8.30 the wind was gone.

Decrepit arrived and we had a chat also Pepe who unfortunately had to go to work. Got sucked in to slogging around a couple of times and then gave up. Sat in the sun waiting and about 11.30 it came in. Did a few loops round the first channel marker and then the scientific platform before deciding to go across the other side and finish an hour. A 23.6 but wind had continued to build so keep going.

Got back to the ramp to see Decrepit heading up wind so followed him up and had a quick chat with Sammy at the top of the estuary.

I was going to join their hour effort but it sounded like I was not welcome so I set off on my own. Went way to broad early on so was at the bottom of the run with half an hour to go. Thought I had used most of the estuary but was still not using the full width. Worried about depth on the far side. Sonic was great and I reckon there is more still on the right day / path. Finished at the bottom of the estuary as the wind really picked up. It was a well overpowered slog back to base.

hour

Had 117 miles on the board and as the wind was howling by this point decided to get the speed board out.

A few nicely powered up runs on the 5.7 and decrepit pointed out the broken bottom batten, Not bad speed for a broken sail.

Very happy with probably my best all round set of numbers for a single day.

Thanks to the Manbramob for use of their home turf.

Warp6.3, sonic 100, elmo 29 weedy for all except the lat 15ish Ks. Warp 5.7, nonose, elmo wailing banshee 24 weedy.

track

Jeff (13640km):

5104 days ago

Mettams to Sorrento. Got to use my new 4.2 ezzy wave, the one from 1998 has been retired but to tell the truth I didnt think the new one felt much different. But then the conditions were a bit extreme. Some light wind spots (a few moments where the wind would almost stop completely, then 2 seconds later bang its on again). Could see the realy windy bits because the seas and swell would all be flattened out by the gusts. Great fun but a bit tiring.

Not too many straight lines out there today.

Comments

Snake

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Fark yeah, Nice couple of PB's lao

Bender

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Nice work guys. PB's gotta love em!!

Chris Adamson

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Where Snake? Well done BTW!

Hardie

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

SEnsational Snake & Senational Lao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snake

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Yet again safety bay produces the goods Chris, Should have seen the swell in 30 knots HUGE!

Elmo

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Congrats to Snake and Lao on the pb's

Sammy the snail

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Great PBs guys , specialy the nbs for SBay Snaky thats some serious speed. Smoking Hr Lao could not match it, now you on the front body!!

evets

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Great going guys, well done on the pbs

Windxtasy

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Great effort guys!

The champs keep getting better.

Another amazing distance effort.

I'm getting kilometer envy.

Stringer

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

well done lads! good to see the hard work paid off!

lao shi

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Wohoo, Snake. Awesome speeds for Sbay.

Top speedster too.

Great speeds pointy. Don't be too hard on yerself.

Hardie

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Hey Lao first to 15,000kms?

Marcel

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Well done guys.. amazing!

Pointman

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Cheers Mark.

Awesone sesh today for you! Fantastic hour in choppy conditions and amazing distance.

I need to catch up with you or Snake next windy day for some Alpha practice. My gybes are getting better, but it frustrates the hell out of me that I can't put a decent alpha together.

Pointman

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Well done Snake. Killer speeds for high tide in Safety Bay, on a slalom board to boot.

paddymac

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Congrats Jake and Mark, fantastic numbers

obi one tobi

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Fan ferkin tastic guys! Congrats, the harder the conditions the better the results- thats commitment.

Mineral

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Gee you guys are not mucking about back home. What a set of numbers from the whole crew that got out. Congrats on your PB's, I can visualise the big grin on Marks face when he put the numbers up, well done mate. Then if it was at all possible that grin would have stretched off his face when Snake posted his numbers with two new PB's as well.

At Swansea south of Newcastle. seabreeze promised so much for here, delivered rain and bugger all else Then watching news and forecast they say long range forecast "rain every day right up until Christmas down the East Coast!!!!" The locals as we travel south have had enough of all the rain. Some really looks, are cast in my direction if I utter "how's all this great rain A"

Called in to chat with Mark at Port Macquarie couple of days back (Mid North-west Marauders) no wind to play in that day but was great to yarn to another GPSTC lad.

Hope to catch up with wineman in Sydney this weekend if the wind plays and the NP/JP Van is out for a play.

Once again, well done you guys and girls, keep hammering

Obelix

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Amazing....

Great speed guys. Mark you shamed my total distance in one go again.

Pointman, no PB on 38+ ? That must have been be close....

Choco

SA
Australia

5104 days ago

Top stuff guys, gee everyone has really stepped up

Windxtasy

WA
Australia

5104 days ago

Mark, I think you've found something you're good at!

Recycle

WA
Australia

5103 days ago

Good team effort lads,congrats snake and lao on the pbs.

Its good to see wa teams stepping up, forget the rest of the world its ON right here !!

Sammy the snail

WA
Australia

5103 days ago

still cannot beleive your nbs Snaky boy, Adam have a 40 PB for SBay, don't go on flat stuff you may hit 40+ no worries mate, and lucky you have not done any alpha today

shiiit hot numbers all of you, what the team WELL DONE AGAIN

I used to fear the SRM, now there you too guys, faaarke there is competion out there this summer gonna be hard