That's a shame, Jase. Just when you were looking forward to a good session too. Did you get to try the Sonic?

Nice one guys . Was absolutely ballistic in leeman with a few mishaps. Will post once i get on a pc. 

Screamin lived up to it's reputation, kenny persistance paid off well done, lots of fun and yep a mishap think i'll be off from sailing for afew weeks with a suspected broken foot😁 more later beer o'clock and another dose of nuerofen😎

Oh no, Boz! We need you! Might be more than a few weeks... Can you drive home?

No way Boz...! a broken foot is a good story round the campfire though:)
 

JJ, good to see you back on the Mistral, and still showing the others how to go fast.

Tailwind - pretty close to JJ's numbers there, good sailing!

Me - on call and very tired after a very busy week, so I decided to have a quiet day today.

That's an impressive ocean hour, alpha and nm Jake. Nice distance too. Carnage on the water today! I am glad you had a lot of fun before injuring yourself.

At the rate we are damaging gear and sailors I may not have a team by the end of the year...

Bummer Boz. Hope it's a quick recovery. Snake - should have come to smelville. Guaranteed to reduce that w29 by a few millimeters running the sandbar. Like tailwind, I also had an encounter with the sandbar which only damaged my ego, as others were in close proximity. As they. say "No pain no gain"

Anita all good for driving, got to keep snake company with injuries.

Youch, Boz! That's a real bummer! What happened? Seems like a lot of guys got kaned up there yesterday. Hope you can hobble back to Perth ok

Tim, good to see you had some wind on a day off, sailed, and returned largely unscathed

Bugger Boz, hopefully it's not broken, and speedy recovery

Sorry to hear about the injuries, Jake maybe you should leave the fin cover on that one.

Its taken me 4 goes to get a decent ocean sail happen (equipment failure, lack of wind, lack of time etc...) so finally managed the first good one for the season. Got that monkey of my back now ;-)

Well done Ken on finishing the Leeman, pinnas1 mobbers0. And a box of beers to boot. Brave effort Boz, keep that foot up.

+1^ Swindy said, well done Pinnas and heal fast Boz.

C'mon, Kenny, we are waiting for the rundown.

Well done for finishing! The Ledge to Lanno will be a cake walk after that

Great team turnout on the saturday back in Perth.

First of all thanks all for the comments. We will have to see the official results to see if my finish was legit. After the race Dan Engdal mentioned that some of the inside bouys were moving position due to current?? Made it diffcult to aim for some of the marks as some were very deep or slightly upwind. The southerly wind direction probably added to the chaos and confusion. 

"Say no to 5-0" was never more true than on Saturday. A lot of the pro slalom guys were on 4 metre sails. The organizer had doubts about proceeding with the race after the wind booted in so called a vote with the competetors. 50 or more people registered but only about 27 voted to go through with the race (even I didnt put up my hand).  Many didnt have the gear for the conditions. 

From the startline most of the fleet screamed downwind with a few ending up in the water half way to the first boat. I was overpowered on my 3.5 fully donwhauled even sheeted out most of the time. Few more in the drink on the first gybe, including me. Quickly got back on and head to the first inside bouy which seemed very deep. Already started to see a few quitting and walking back to the startline including some pros which wasnt a good sign.

A bit too chicken to bear away enough to reach the outside boats which made the outside gybes very hard. Spent a lot of time trying to water start in the swell and incessant wind which was flipping the sail and board out of position. At this point I was getting disheartened watching the rest of the fleet screaming down the course and thinking about quitting or getting on a rescue boat. After a few more dropped gybes and waterstarting it was gettting closer to the 1 hour time limit so i knew I had to get going even though my legs were in agony and starting to cramp up. The last few legs were a lot less deep on both tacks and I was starting to get the gybes. Went passed a girl at the 3rd last boat who was ahead of me most of the race. I gybed around the last cray boat and I could see the finish line to my relief! The water was lot flatter and almost cross wind so i was able to cruise to the finish line but made sure I didnt get ahead of myself and crash right at the end infront of the crowd. Got to finish a few minutes over 1 hour to be greeted by Mike from the wannabees who was champ for grabbing my rig and giving me a lift back to the startline not to mention that he finished in 40 minutes on a 4.7!  I expected to see most of the 36 or so participants at the finish line but only saw a handful of people mostly the wave sailors from Geraldton, Ben Severne, Jesper and the girl who came in after me. Soon realised that many had quit somewhere down the course. So glad I didnt listen to my head telling me to quit most of the way.

3.5 Blade, 80 evil twin

Lessoned learned from screamin Leeman:

-Speed is your enemy especially in 30+ knots and chop! 

-Always have a few small wave sails before a race incase of nuclear conditions

-Hang onto your 90s plastic fantastic boards for conditions like this (Jesper used one to win the race)

Will post about the funner slalom races on Sunday the 26th sessions

NIce wrap up Ken.

+1 what Anita said, the Ledge to Lanno will be a walk in the park after Leeman.

Slalom racing on wave gear, classic

Thanks for the details, Ken, and well done for finishing. Good thing you had a hankerchief sail with you. Even I don't have sails that small. Did you not wear your GPS?

Welcome back, Bunyip!

Great recap, Ken and huge congrats on the finish!! Sounds pretty epic to me. Good practise for the LOC that never seems to happen (the one with wind!) 3.5m sail hahaha. That's tiny! !!