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Another great exploring day at Wallyworld. Great to see Nebbs back on the water. It's been too long! Had fun chasing around behind the bar. Rigged the 5.7 thinking it was going to nuke. Really comfy sailing but not too fast. Changed up to the 7 for the last part of the session. Thought alphas behind the bar were going to be good but on analysis was pinching on the way in so too slow. Oh well! Know better for next time.

Great to see a bunch of crew out on the water.

Warp 5.7, LB 7, s 100, bandit 30, Gw 32.

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Pelican Point, WA, 16-28kts, Sonic 90, Koncept 6.6, GW32

Crazy morning, couldn't get the gear set quite right so it was a bit uncomfortable and not that fast.

Porka was doing some smoking runs on the speed board. Somepunk thought he'd give the 7.8 a try  not for long. Trousers was fanging too.

Ggreat start to a Sunday!

Pelican Point, 115L, 7.5m I was way overpowered on 7.5.

Great sail at Peli. Got on the water at about 8 and enjoyed the best of the wind. Crazy shoet period chop out in the middle, but some reasonably flat water in near the point. Could have rigged bigger, but glad I didn't during the bullet gusts.

Good to see a few Pinnaroos about plus the usual peli pt crew.

CA SP47; F8 Ram 5.4; FO Weedster 260.

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Fun easterly sesh at Peli.

First hour on the 93 S-Type + 6.6 TR7 + 34 Talon for the best speeds.  Combo was great in the gusts, but I struggled a bit inside the lee of the point.

Some ripper gusts coming through that must have been high 20s, but mostly out in the middle where the chop was insane.

Came in to change up cos the breeze felt like it was backing off a bit.  Switched to the F111 + 7.6 TR7 + 40 Talon.  My first run across the river on that set-up had me seriously questioning my idea to change up  but it settled down a bit after that.

Went for a few alphas, but it was pretty choppy out on the point and the flats weren't that flat, so speed across the breeze was average.

30 minutes into the second part of my sesh the Talon sheared off, more or less flush with the fin box, so I body-dragged in until I could stand and walked the rest of the way.

Spewing about the fin, it was only 18 months old, and it was my fave fin for the 111.

Still drove home with a smile on the dial, it was a great morning on the water.

Point Walter, iSonic 94, Loft Blade 5.6, C3 Venom 30 cm.

Couldn't let that lovely strong easterly go to waste so made the trek down to Wallyworld to find Lao Shi coming in.

Great to hop on the slalom gear again, happy with my speed, any day over 30 is a good day in my books 

Not sure how I could have gone faster, perhaps a bit more sail (6.2 or so) and perhaps some weight?  Weird direction for the wind, Lao and I had some runs way downwind of the bar, felt like we were almost in Fremantle.  Great fun 

Point Walter, WA, AU

Manta 69, RSS MkIII 7.0m2, JP42

Got there for a 7.30 start with the breeze pushing 30 knots in the squalls.  Could've rigged smaller sail and fin but wanted to test the upper end on this combo - well I found it.  Uncomfortable from start to finish.  Couldn't go to the lee of the spit because of the fin, so stayed upwind of the spit in some seriously grovelling conditions - came back in but wasn't fired up enough to rig down and go out again - just made some bad choices today.  Nice to meet Slowy at last.