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Stansbury, SA, AU S 15-20

FF102,GP2 7.3,lessacher 28 duo weedy

Tried the GP2 7.3 for the first time and found it a very good light wind sail. Could have done with a few more knots though. Tricky was struggling on the 87 with light wind and also a large split and small split in his 6.6 KA. It was one of those days where we could have settled in for distance but with Trickies broken equipment and my sore back we called the session off early and had a few beers instead.

Enjoyable afternoon.

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Well it was a top 10 Hoppy day, thanks mate for the flogging Jeff lent me his AB (thats a real mate)as it was pritty marginal & my CA 101 was still in dry dock from the last crash. Rigged the 6.6 Koncept as that was all I had & plugged in the 32 Lessacher Duo weedie. cruzed out but couldnt get settled too much back hand load, stopped & eased off the down haul ahh lots better, Jeffs foots straps were girrola size so stopped & made the back ones smaller, the AB jibes a treat got my Alpha peak on the second uturn . Wasnt settled on the runs(didnt want to scrach it) so decided to head in & get the Isonic, left the sail on a moring & made the trudge back to change board, got back to realise I didn't have a mast base another trudge. By the time stopped fluffing around & got back out Hoppy had cranked out an hour! Jagged a couple of gusts to have some semi respectial numbers but under done & struugled to get on the plane at the end of every run, even struggled to keep my ground having to pinch all day. after my hour hoppy stopped for a chat & noticed a hole in my sail so we decided to call it quits. Thanks for the coldies was a great end to a short session.,

Boggy Lake, SA, AU

Arrived at 1pm and it looked reasonable. Considering whether to go for a distance PB when PJ turned up, our own king of distance after a considerable absence from our lake. I heeded the omen, and my decision was made, push as hard as I could.

Started with the Tabou 100lt/Select 35cm and GP2 6.0. Wasn't fully lit, but I was planing almost all the time. After two hours I swapped it all over to the Falcon 79l and pushed for another hour or so. Pretty knackered now, but happy to have got there.

I know Jack improved his GPS numbers, but also broke a mast. Bittersweet. Great to sail with PJ again, and as always Leon was eating it up. Sooo tired now...I can't concieve 200kms, let alone 500!

[Edit: oh, a new record for my hour as well. Nice!]

Boggy Lake, SA, AU

Good day bad day. Just getting into it when my mast snapped over the other side of lake. Luckily car park was dead down wind, about 1.3 km.  Long walk /swim back. Loaded onto Google Earth overlay but do not know how to place on here.

Thanks for Leon, Shane and Peter for checking I was OK and keeping an eye on me.

Short sail foot still recovering from wednesday.

Simmer Stylye Freemove 120, S4Y 7.5 freedom, Techart slalom 38

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08-02-15 Boggy Lake SSW 16-20 knots-Exocet R3-Koncept 6.2m-Leassacher 32cm weedy

Tis always hard to sail Boggy after the flats of Lake George. In fact I've forgooton how to gybe and get any speed in the Boggy slush WTF:-( Great day otherwise.

Goolwa South, SA, Wind: South 12-18

KA Koncept 6.6 JP Slalom 104 select slam elite 35

quick few runs on the Chopy Lake...

bumpy and not much fun but still nice to be out.