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Point Walter, WA, AU

"Rig for what you see not for what may be" a wise windsurfer once told me. No probs the 8.6 it is then. Wheres the next verse which it says "you idiot thats way too big for what it is now" Being far too lazy to change down i just decided to wrestle with the beast. Good turnout this morning, seemed to be picking up again as i left so hopefully more got to enjoy it.

Futura 121, NP RSR4 8.6, Vector canefire 42

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Point Walter, WA

On the water at 8.40 - light to start with, then the wind booted in at about 9.30 for about an hour to 20 knots with stronger gusts .

Had to change down fins to keep the board on the water 

Good crowd out, super fun morning

Mistral 137    KAR 7.9   CLSL2 48 & 42

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Ended up being much windier than expected. Thanks to Steve's Surf Shed I was trying a 107L Patrik Freestyle with a 23cm MFC freestyle fin.

This was after a discussion with Steve that made me think outside the box. Moving away from big cammed sails but getting better light wind performance with my wave sails.

The board is really easy and quick to get planing and gybes nicely in a variety of arcs. Good maneuverability as well.

Felt slow compared to a slalom board but well suited to areas with short runs. Running a small fin on this board allows you to get in to the flat stuff too.

Not a bad alpha and hour considering the 2s speed and condittions.

Once you get the technique it motors up wind too. Stays planted through the chop. Could have used a smaller sail a lot of the time.

Certainly more physical sailing as you don't get that locked down slalom feel but definitely see the potential. Want to try it with a bigger freeride fin.

GE 6.2, Patrik 107 Freestyle, MFC 23 Freestyle

Point Walter, WA, AU

Pelican Point, 155L, then 118L with an 8.5m sail.

It's been a while, so great to be out.

Hard work on that board today. Downsized the board to 118L with 35cm fin which made it more fun.

David was leaving as I arrived, otherwise, never more than 4 sails on the river.

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Point Walter, WA, AU

I went for a look and as I arrived the wind came in nicely so went back home and got my gear.

It was a great day to try different combonations and settings, so just kept going. Super bumpy with all the boats but good fun.

At leats I got my monts worth of sailing done

RRD 111:Reflex 7.0; 36,42,38 M91:27 had some nice runs on the 91 but needed more fin I think.

Pelican Point, WA, AU

left home with the graph showing 20-24 knots. Arrived at Peli which was ina wind shadow, so very hard to knw what to rig. I went with my "go to" sail the 5.8 Koncept. Sadly the 5.8 will be my "go to" sail no longer, as it became my "Go through" sail as the panel above the boom tore just as I was about to hit the water.  By then it looked like the wind was dropping (but still hard to tell as the rigging area was in a big wind shadow), so I rigged my 6.5. I was tossing up whether to go with the big board as well but thought I'd give the M91 a go. I could always come back in and get the bigger board. As it turns out, I hit the water just as the wind picked up again, and I had a lovely planing run all the way to Melville (which was a bit of a surprise because I was expecting the wind shadow of Majestics to be a problem). Unfortunately, when it was time to come back, the wind decided it had worn itself out and decided to go home without giving me any assistance to do likewise. That meant I had a light wind grovel home, through very lumpy waters (considering the lack of wind). It took a couple of tacking legs to get sufficiently upwind to come close to Peli Point, and even then I had a bit of a walk back to the start point. 

It was good to get out in some semisunshine at least, and good to catch up with JP, Shaw, Claude, Daniel and Ken, and to park next to PK for the second time this week. We actually got around to introducing ourselves this time.

A good workout but not as much fun as anticipated.

RIP Koncept.

Point Walter - IS107, CR7.7, CF38. Nice to see so many on the water. Congrats on the distance Tailwind especially in that chop