Had a rare afternoon sailing at this time of year.  Blowing pretty good around 4pm.  Rigged 7.2m fusion with solid downhaul.  Trusty iSonic, fitted my smallest fin for that board for the first time - a curved 47 cm rhino - handy for shedding some of the weed and crap that was floating around.  Second outing with my new waist harness.  Ed said I would be needing shorter lines - used my 28inch and had to set the boom nice and high to hook in - planning on 24inch lines.  Boom height was great for early planing but we had more than enough wind to play with and I needed the boom to be around the mid point to control and harness the drive.  Fin was great, nice and smooth, had the board zinging along.  Great to see Simmi out for a sail.  Gave it about and hour and a half till I ran out of condition.  Sun shining and having a ball with my mate Ed.  Showed him a Rhino Speed fin that I scored from Dieter for $100 bucks - this will be the largest fin I will run on my 120 Atomiq... looking forward to that.  Maybe I can sail that board without smashing the damn nose - I must have done that about 7-8 times last year - keeps costing me a bottle of Bourbon at Ed Wheatley's board repairs.  As Ed says, "there here for a good time not a long time".  Having the benefit of the adjustable outhaul is just fantastic from the point of view that you can really tune the outhaul.  But a couple of years back I picked up a second hand North XT adjustable downhaul, and for about 6 months it was awesome.  You add or release any increment of the downhaul.  Something that I think would add another tuning dimension - being able to adjust downhaul whenever the wind picked up or dropped off - as it was today, when I had to ask Ed to help crank the guts out of the sail.  I should have ducked up to the car park and got my downhaul crank, but was lazy - and I paid for it.  Stupid me.  Looking to get the second generation of the North XT.  A fantastic start to the year - we have had two high quality sails already = I loved the run back towards shore, with the board lit up, the sail running flat, feet in the straps and the fin doing its thing.  Life Is Good.

Hey Snorkel, congrats on ya Pb, that's some K's on the lumpy lumpy