Melville Beach, WA, AU

Lovely day but not much wind, planing maybe 20% of the time.

Xfire 114 with Turbo 7.5 and tried a couple of fins.

2 categories

Frustrating session at Dutchues on an afternoon off!

When I arrived it was whitecapping and a few nice lumps rolling through.

A couple of runs and it started to fade. (JJ killed it!) I ended up dodging the reef South of the break catching a few runs on the lumps.

Just managed to tack back up before it glassed off.

Gasbagged for a while then gave up and derigged. Just about to go for a coffee when it kicked in!

Hurriedly rerigged and climbed in to a cold, wet wetsuit. By the time I got out it had backed off again but at least got a few backside rides before it died again!

S1 5.9, Rider Quad

3 categories

Green Island, QLD, AU

Day 1 of racing at the nationals

Im afraid i didnt wear my GPS for the actual racing but only for the freerace which was how far you can go in an hour within a defined sailing area. if you sail out of the box your recording stops.

Kellie (miss KA.72.com herself) had a new programme where you could see all the sailors buzzzing around on the same screen which was very cool and they may be releasing it soon.

Anyway they said to sail between 1430 and 1530 but were late with the start (which i didnt realise until i was back on the beach and lost out on 5 minutes of sailing (so i recorded 18.5 for the day instead of 20.3).

I was massively overdone this day with 30 knot gusts coming through at the end and tuesday they were predicting >5 knots on that.

During the racing i di well in the fist race to get to the final and led the fleet (over the line!!) so recorded an 8th.

107 7.0