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Clifton Beach, QLD, AU Nice blast of my home beach in 15-18 knots on the Mistral 112 Tribal SW 35 Loft Blade 8.6.Super messy water when the wind kicked in but great fun !!

Photo taken this morning before the breeze began.

At ~1.5m of tide on the island there can be some really nice patches of 'smooth water '-need to dodge the turtles/stray rocks ..

Knackered -sailing fitness all but gone...

Holloways Beach, QLD, AU

Headed to the beach hoping to get a sail on the desperation gear,(Bindis old 130lt AHD, 52cm select and 7.8 Overdrive)

Only to be blown off the water with an unexpected 20 to 25kts!

Good fun! Would have been much nicer with a 6.2 and my 90lt,,

Port Douglas, QLD, AU

Day of First's - First sail of 2017...my god, that coulndt have come any slower, dead set, the weight scales at home couldnt take any more punishement . Second first - First use of the GW-60. Must say, what a breeze to use and so easy to keep a track of your session. Cant wait for the new update.

Turned out to be a real nice arvo up at Port D. Rounded up every one I could...Ian B. Fast Ed, Andrew, Freddo, Young Ben. First two hours, we were very much controlled by the rain scuds that came and went with very little sailing done. 3PM seemed to be the magic number. In she came, the clouds cleared and a very nice steady 15kts entertained the troops, which was about all this body could take after such a long lay off.                                                                

125 AHD Diamond, 49S10, 7.5 T4 .   Happy days again.                                                                                                         

great day at port douglas with Billly,Eddy,Ian,Ben and Andrew. Started early thinkingstorms might come in this afternoon, but the exact opposite

wind was great around 3-00 ish but I was already wasted......fitness is at an all time low.

Managed to have another univeral joint tendon go on me on my second run out....disappointing!

RRD X-FIRE 102 , KOYOTE 6.6 AND CANEFIRE 6.6....all a little small for most of what today provided.

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Port Douglas, QLD, AU

Good first sail of the year at Port with the lads. Arrived around lunch time before the 3:00 wind kicked in, so riged big iSonic 117, Severne gator 7.0 and Northshore 46 fin. that was great until 3:00 when the the fin was too big, the baord  too fat for the chop and i was already byggered.  Despite all that a realy good day better than the last 9 weeks of not sailing.

Ian

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Port Douglas, QLD, AU.Had a play date with the boys, think Billy organised it..wasn't that keen on a early start...New 'happy hr 'wasn't gunna start till 3oclock but had a tune up session on 7.8m gastra that my wing man Andrew has lent me..Am still not getting the most out of this sail Billy said it will pull harder on gorilla mast he gave me instead of Andrews Niel Pryde, will try it next session..Think i am missing my old Niel Pryde 7.7 and my nice soft north platium mast.. wind hooked in bang on 3oclock and i did a   quick board change from 117 to 97 isonic, little board felt a bit nervous  in a stiff breeze and a choppy sea with 40 cm fin, new big fin was gunna be a bit of an over kill but i was just playing around today.. wanted to sail till dark but ran out of fuel..Think the crew all went home happy..Cheers Ed

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iS97, 7.0RBlade, 36 Tribal Sl - Lammermoor Beach, QLD, AU ESE 14-18kn

Something not quite right from the get go with board sounding unusual slapping over the water.  Persisted for a little while but came in to find bottom had a 40cm circular delamination just below mast track.  First time I've ever had a board delaminate but put it down to my own stupidity by not removing vent plug when travelling from Brisbane after xmas holidays.  Should be an easy fix using criss cross method and mixing up some epoxy with qcels and reglassing (a la Firiebob method).