Het was een korte sessie omdat ik nog veel werk had slechts om 15u toegekomen en dan was de meeste wind al weg. In het begin liep de x-fire 98 niet goed. Hij bleef maar plakken aan het water. Mastvoet 5 cm naar achter en dan liep hij mooi los. Spijtig genoeg te veel tijd verloren dan om nog een paar goeie runs te doen want de duisternis was er snel.

Best wel tevreden met mijn x-fire 98 nog een 70.5 km/u op de display van de gps gekregen. En hij kan best nog sneller.

I wanted to give it a try. After all I needed only one good run. I had to wait untill the chop got more or less "acceptable" later in the afternoon, but the wound was still very painfull . My bad luck simply continued, while I sat in the ambulance and got my foot ducttaped (and squeezed in a 2 sizes to small bootie to surpresse a bleeding), my mast snaped! the 2nd in a few days time, never had that before! Ofcourse he got stuck in the luff pocket. After smashing it to smithereens with a steel bar, cutting it whit a saw and derigging, the wind started to fade away. The first 2 runs were extremely painfullI, every chop was a needle in my foot. But then adrenaline/endorphine took over! Run 3 felt great, but I wasn't carrying enough lead to profit of the last gust of the day...I did what I could and set 5 runs in 50 minutes in the dying wind. It's sour to not have set a new record while everybody else did the other day, but life (somethimes) sucks! Maybe next time.