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Safety Bay, WA, AU

Nice bit of breeze, fairly choppy out back but hey it made it great for a potential stack. Oh yeah thats right i did have a rather sensational stack You know the moment when one of those ugly choppy wavey things hits your front foot and whips it straight out of the strap.....oh dear.....(insert washing machine spin cycle) Surprisingly there werent a huge amount out, but i did have to be out by 4pm. Was good to try some of the old fins and a few boards then finish up with the Tribal to remember how good they are.

Reflex3 6.2

RRD xfire 102 (Lunny carbon weedy 30cm 32kn)

F2 Missile 49 (Vector ws 23cm 34kn)

Mistral 91 (C3 sting 27cm weedified 32kn, Tribal ws 27cm 34kn)

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Posted for Jason by Windxtasy.

Very nice hour and alpha Jason!

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Melville Beach, WA, AU

90s Mistral Energizer (110L) - KA Koncept 5.8 - Makani Weed 30

Safety Bay with Pete. A bit of ocean cruising out around penguin island and a few slingshots down the run dodging the kooky kiters.

A very nice way to end the working week. Good to see Lunny out, not many windsurfers.

CA SP47; Ram 6.3; Curtis Lockwood 23.5

Pelican Point. 155L / 7.5 m

Thought it would be 16-17 knots so only loaded my new 155L toy and 7.5m and new 8.6m.
So rigged "small" at 7.5m while everyone was on 6 and under.

Mainly stayed in-shore as the wind was too much beyond the yellow buoy. Built some confidence, went accross, and on the way back my boom broke.  Rigged it the other way around, managed another 200m before the other side gave up, but I could touch the bottom and walk home.

Inspected the boom. No corrosion, just overstressed on this gear and overpowered on my weight.

The board worked really well and I'm happy about the purchase. 26.5 is not bad for an 11kg beginners board. It felt really safe in the chop too. 

Melville Beach, WA, AU Relaxing sail apart from the few out of control for 7.5 gusts. Geoff I did see you on the water. I was doing long runs across all sort of wind and chop. Just my relative was not as happy but almost got to beach start. 105 Rocket, 36 pointer. I have not used pointers for ages. Going strait seemed more efficient, gybing was different. 

Coodanup, WA, AU 6.4K M91, 21 delta

A good team session at Coodanup with Jeff, Alan, Jason, David and Adrian. The plan was to try for a good hour and alpha today, but the wind picked up just after I had rigged and consequently I was overpowered and messed up most of the gybes through not being able to sheet in. Never the less a third best hour for me, and one of the gybes is just outside my top 5, just a little slower than the one I did last week - also overpowered. Probably my best alpha with the 6.4 Koncept. It really is too big for me to throw around sufficiently or efficiently. Gybes improved during the hour until the wind just got too strong.

Not very flat today despite the low tide. Than nm would be the bumpiest one I have done in a long time.

Coodanup, WA, AU

Mistral Explosion 103 litre, Np 6.5m2 V6, Delta 22

A most enjoyable first planing session for 2016. Great to see Ross and Jeff.

Coodanup, WA, AU

Could not get going on the Xfire 80 properly so thought I would try the Mistral 73 which went surprisingly well in the lightish wind: but no good speeds.

Koncept 6.6, 19 cm Delta

Nice to see Jeff and Anita

Pelican Point, WA, AU 8.6 Turbo 133 Bic 40 FO, 6.5 Gator 95 JP 32 Tectonics

Had the larger gear setup up but when it started to blow 20+ knots it was more than a handful so changed down. The wind was a bit flukey and the 6.5 and 95L combo was good at times and a bit light on at others. Just moved my straps to the outboard setting on the 95 and getting that back foot in at the start was tricky after a while ot all came good though. I should have changed to the 34 fin or back to the 133 but everything is easier in hindsight. Fun day and I was pooped after! Don't know how people can sail 100km+ Think I would fall apart haha.

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Coodanup, nice cruise Mistral 112, delta 21ish and Koncept 6.6 . tried to improve on the hour but didnt have a watch. figured something like 12 laps should be an hour so did 20 or so.

didnt get very good top speed and was dragging a bit of weed about, also had the bottom cam pop off the sail early on but didnt want to stop to fix it. thought I would do that after 20 laps and then do some more but was too tired by then.

Yellow line is 2km

Melville - IS107, Turbo 6.5, Talon 34 - 1st downwind run following advice from the wise, had the best speed.  Felt really slow and I didn't even bother looking at the GT31.  Lots more to learn!

Coodanup, WA, AU

100 speedster, 7.0 overdrive 19 delta.

Pelican Point, WA, AU