Melville Beach, WA, AU

Mistral One Design, NP V6 5.5m2

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Coolrider 160 litre, Unifibre 1.5m2

The breeze was really strong and gusty today.

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Leighton Beach, WA

On the water just after noon with Norts, the best time to sail at Leighton - sun high in the sky so beautiful turquoise water with schools of flying fish 

Misread the wind, we got only 16 knots at best, so used all the wrong gear.

XFire 112,  KA 7,  CLSL2 38

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Coolrider 160 lt, Unifibre 1.5m2

The wind was very gusty and it kept changing direction.

First time using the Canmore GP102.

Melville Beach, WA, AU

Somewhat underwhelming on the river. Nice and sunny but the wind was light, warm and gusty. Good to see the kids learning.

Xfire102(fail) Futura 121, Reflex4 7.8, tribal ws33

not enough wind for an hour. Still good fun with Slowey and Hammo...

Patrick 100l, KA Koncept 7.5 and CL2 33cm and 40cm

Leighton Beach, WA, AU

Melville Beach, WA, AU iS111. 6.4K, 35 GW

A good team turn out but the wind did not come to the party.

Melville at its worst. Gusty swinging warm air with no oomph in it. Graphs said 14-16 but it felt more like 10-12 for the most part.

I am surprised I managed 20 knots and for once my alpha is better than expected. As I never went over 18 knots on entry or exit 14.68 isn't bad, I hope?

At one stage the wind got so light I tried some helitacks. Got the board around but too much power in the sail. A lot more work required, maybe with the freeride sail next time?

Pinnaroo Point, WA, AU

Light wind session at the home of the Pinnaroos. Just enough wind to get going (some of the time) with the 6.0.

90s Seatrend Slalom - Ezzy Infinity 6.0 - Choco Weed 28

Looks like the ocean was the place to be today!

Went for a bit of a stretch. Dutchies - Port - Swanbourne- Dutchies. Only 8 Nmiles as the crow flies round trip!

Hour on the Port - Swanbourne leg. Ocean / big board PB? Kept the outward legs to about a mile using the watch. 20 turns.

Gamble to use the pointer paid off and only the Swanbourne - Dutchies leg was a pain as the wind dropped.

A little tired now!
Loft Blade 7.8, F2 SX77, Cane Fire 44

Pelican Point, WA, AU

Lovely afternoon with a light breeze, just enough to keep planing most of the time.

Rocket 125, 42 fin, new (only sailed four times) Turbo 7.5. It sits well on my second hand but nearly new Severn Enigma boom.

Don't know how I broke a sail batten on such a ight day, but I did. Tom Radis gave me a replacement batten tube which I have used to fix it. Thanks Tom.

Funny, but someone else broke several battens today.

Pelican Point, WA, AU

killed 2 birds with one stone, took my son Ollie to PP and then left him to it as i followed captains orders for an hour. on the light side but managed to keep planing apart from a couple of annoying post gybe stalls. lots of traffic in the river to dodge.

faithful old 127 and 8.6

Melville - Another attempt to tryout the Patrik 110 (CR7.5, 34 Techtonic).  But just could not get going.  So far not having much luck with this board :(

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A few runs in and out at Melville before calling it a day early. Had a couple of smoking drags (<1knot!) with Lunny haha. New sail and enigma combo feels beasty. Makes the 107 feel small somehow...I can't wait for a nice, steady 15 knots to properly set the sail up. Next time

Iso 107, RB 7.8, Vector proto 38