Congrats on the PB's GS, nice distance 

Nice one Shaw! Coodanup can spoil you sometimes, sounds like you guys might have had a good day?!

Nice work, Shaw!  A big increase in distance - nearly 50%! a not so big increase in hr - just a hair short of a smigden, but hey, 2 PB's. Well done!!  ...and thanks for the support and company

Super Pbs Anita and Shaw - new team distance machines

Wow Anita, big distance big congrats, so close to the magic ton 

Great distance guys.

Congratulations on the PBs Shaw and Anita.

Almost 100km Anita. Very impressive.  Pushed us up on the ranking for October too.

Big kms Pinna's. Congratulations to all.

Distance is always a well deserved PB.

Well done on the PB's everyone. (sorry Shaw & Anita those last 2 pesky posters stole your beans) Bit more wind and smaller sail and i reckon we could have got a few more Km's. Harder to manage the bigger gear isnt it.

Awsome PB's guys I can only dream of doing 100km. I fall asleep driving that distance.

Nice work Craig and Alan! I didn't think any distance I managed would hold a jellybean for long - but I'm OK with that. Well done team, and especially to those who pushed their limits to score a PB!

Craig you sound so nonchalant about your 162 km as though it was a walk in the park. The rest of us are stuffed!

Yes a bit more wind would have been handy - smaller gear takes less effort and going faster would have got us there a lot sooner. Otherwise a perfect day for distance.

Alan - a good score for the Fangtastic 5 too- I think you and Decrepit (and he would have to be the favourite) are just about even for the day!

Great effort with rewarding PB's guys. Well done

Catch those who are goin to Pizza night tomorrow night

Well done with the Pbs everyone

+1 top work

congrats on the PBs people, nice flat water, but wasn't good wind for a distance PB.

Talking of distance Alan, I'm sure Anita said you did 73NM, my computer makes that 135Km not 129Km. Thing is you see as it stands my Fantastic Fangy 5 score is a pooftenth better than yours, but if you actually did 135km that puts you in the lead by about 6pts. Could bear looking at more closely.

The captain made the call and the troops delivered. Well done team. Wind in Perth just never really got there.

Great job by Lunny on a massive distance for a pretty low wind day!

Well done to AC1 on the PB back up and Fangy Five assault.

Nice strategy from the Captain to PB but still leave herself the ton as future motivation!

Good going on 2 PBs as well GS!

Hi Mike,

I was surprised Ka72 gave me 129Km instead of 135, as it was definetly 73+nm on the dial. 

Does anyone know how to check which number is correct?

Nice work Craig and Alan - glad you were able to make the Skip happy

Craig, big distance carrying the 8.6 - team Arnie award

Thanks for the congratulations everybody. My numbers looked a whole lot better beofre Alan and Craig posted theirs, but as team captain I am very happy for them to surpass me!

Alan, do you want to put your file through realspeed and see what that comes up with? Send me your track if you don't have real speed.

I guess to be fair, both you and Decrepit should use the same software to analyse yesterdays results. I'll ask him what he used.

Mark, the wind in Perth was just as strong if not stronger (according to seabreeze) than what we got on the estuary. My guess of 12-18 is probably a bit generous. It was more like 12-15 most of the time. The big advantage of the Peel estuary being that you don't get the many big holes and gusts like you do on the river.

Well done on the PBs everyone,  Anita, a huge congrats on the gybe success rate, that sounds great.

Thanks Steve, You and Elmo have been my inspiration to keep trying with the gybes. I am nearly there now. I can salvage nearly all of my light wind gybes even if I mess them up (I turned one inmto a tack yesterday), and I am close to planing out of the better ones. I was a bit disappointed not to get an alpha PB yesterday because some of them felt really good - but I guess the entry speed just wasn't there.

I kept your distance tips in mind too. Thanks.

Hi Anita,

I'm sure the Fangy Five score will be surpasssed soon anyway so it doesnt realy matter about checking the distance.

I agree Alan, but I'm putting my numbers through KA72 to see what that says, but if youd like to send me your file I'll process it the same way I did mine, then we'll have to results identically processed. The we can toss acoin as to which set we use.

My email is decrepit at gmail, but you have to use the "@" sign with no gaps and put .com at the end.

Ka 72 has been processing my file for ages, this 5hz stuff takes a while, I'll be back with it's results.

Here's my KA72 results, but I'm not happy with them, it's robbed me on the alpha.

Both GPSARPro and GPS results give 2 alphas in the 19s and another 3 in the 18s higher than the KA72 result. That's the main reason I don't use KA72

2s 27.966, 5x10 26.318, 1hr 15.455, alpha 18.197, NM 22.489, dist 124.203

FFF = 219.173

Personally I feel the most appropriate solution is for us both to send Fangy our files, then he can work it out.

But I'm still more than happy to process Alan's file the same way I did mine.

Amazing distance Anita! I can't see me ever getting that many kms..You must be fitter than you say.

Evil indeed! 

While I was out sailing yesterday I was thinking that none of the real weedbergs were anywhere near as hazardous as the ones in that game!!!

Sue, I surprised myself. The reason I was not intending to be distance backup is that I didn't think I had any chance of getting close to a decent distance. Must be all that time off sailing has repleted my muscle glycogen stores. 

Wow Anita how are you feeling today. Great effort, thats an impressive Pb.

Not too bad, thanks Toby. A bit generally sore and weary but not too bad. Ravenously hungry though!

Congrats on the PBs Anita. Impressive!

Marathon effort, congrats all!

Nice K's there Anita

Hey Anita I read somewhere that sailboarding uses from 500-1000 calories an hour.. No wonder I can eat anything and still lose weight when I'm sailing regularaly. If we spread that around maybe we'd get more women taking up the sport!

I was ravenous after that big session on Friday. I woke up at 2 in the morning and couldn't stop thinking about what I was going to have for breakfast, so I got up and made bacon and hash browns at 2.30AM! 

Nice PB's on dist

Leo getting close to the big 40

What a very artistic track map Anita! 

Great distance effort!

Well done everyone.

You can see that as I got further out into the estuary the wind improved and I was able to go upwind better. That and I was getting so desperately hungry and thirsty by then that I just tried a lot harder to get to Boundary Island so I could go back and get a drink.