Congrats Hardie.

Awesome NM

Wow nice NM Hardie congrats

JP-stunning -Wow ...!!! So jealous ...

And Sammy too ...!! Fantastic Nms-bar keeps going up +++

We made it JoJo , yeeeeaaahrrggggh

You are both Very Naughty boys. Sorry. Somebody had to say it. Wonderfull work Sammy and Hards

Fantastic NMs sammy and hardie, see what a captain's sacrifice can do for you!

My theory about NMs there being 2kts under the 2s worked in both your cases today.

Sounds like you had a bit more water, and could get slightly longer runs?

Sammy Sammy Sammy

Sammy Yeee Haaa mate just bloody pipped my best nm,

go Hardie great to see you so stoked with your sailing again.

Very Naughty Hardz and Sammy, looks like you got the best of it today.

Fantastic results

Well done gents!....sammy! Sensational!

Sammy and Hardie: fantastic miles, well done to both of you . Really glad you did not have to go to LG for a pb. As for me, there will be other days when I time it right!

dem smoking 0tys Sammy & Hardie congrats PB's are

Fantastic Nauties Hardz and Sammy! Really smokin! Congratulations on the PB's. You guys are so good, PB's are hard to come by and they are very special!  

I like your theory on 2 sec v's Nautie's Decrepit, that should have got me a 40 NM today!  I guess that theory only applies to a place where the wind and water conditions are as consistent as Albany.

   Awesome  PBs Hards & Samm,!!!,  CONGRATs guys,       

Good on you guys for making the most of it and showing those LG people that WA has all that good stuff too. Congratulatins on some really awesome naughties, all of you!

Just wish I could get down there... I think it is very unfair that Huey waited until AFTER the long weekend to send all that wind to Albany.

What a day for NM's!

Joe & Sammy those are an incredible matching pair of NM PB's! Just awesome

Alby & Steve even though you may have missed the peak conditions you both scored matching 2nd best ever NM's, which is pretty cool

Should be a bit more serene tomorrow as the Millpond is hoping to get a sail in before nightshift.

Wow guys, great miles! Well Done.

Well done guys

Great PB Sammy !!! and Hardie !! congratulations, almost as fast as my 2sec !

Well done on the NM's guys ...

Yes Andrew my theory is only good for exceptional NM spots, it's quite common at Lilacs and Fangy's

I have seen a few posts about the abrasive nature of the weed at Lilacs. Anyone on a FF got any feedback for me on how the aluminium is holding up?

I asked Jeremy, and he says there's a little bit of wear that needs a light sand, heaps better than G10, but not as good as stainless.

go sammy and Hardie.

sensational nm pb's Joe and sammy....nice work  gentlemen.   Huge numbers from all 4 of you.  Congrats!

Thanks Mike, it seems the wear is pretty much as expected and I think we can happily tick the 'hard wearing' box in characteristics of FF. 

Photos from Lilacs of Alby and Steve....

NM run first

Edit:  I think those photos expose us as cheats, I'm not really an elite sailor I just got sucked down a margic carpet ride. I am just drooling looking at those photos, and for once the drool is from memory of actually sailing there

Wow...that's flatter than Nicole Kidman in Windrider! Hardie do you specialise in head shrinking or torture, posting those pictures are messing with my mind. How can it be so flat for 2km? That red muppet Elmo is bigger than I thought.

Great stuff Shane. Thanks for posting them, it has made me feel so much better about staying here and trying out responsible parenting. Not. 

Chris and Roo. There's a long weed covered sandbar across the end of the harbour, Every time I've been there that hasn't changed. I'ts open to the ocean at the top end so is tidal, but even in the highest tides I've seen the weed is still efective at keeping it flat. That's the lightbrown streak in the background of the pics, it isn't sand, that's exposed weed.

The weed inside the bar does vary a bit, at the moment it's quite heavy, especially on a lowish tide.

So it's not seasonal as far as the water goes, but it needs an Easterly to work. Best time for this is when there's a big high in the bight and a trough down the west coast. Perth is becalmed in the 40s, Albany in the 20s with a howling seabreeze. Going there is a no brainer!

The google earth screenshot below is my tracks from Thursday. My tracks look a good distance from the sand bank, but I was right on the edge of the thickest weed, in fact in the top right track you can see the purple change to blue and back to purple. This was me trying to blast through some thicker weed, only to almost get dragged over the front. I went from 35kts to 29kts in 5 seconds. But that track makes the full 1852m in purple. all the others start and finish in blue.

Great memories came flooding back from last year after seeing these photos -WOW...!!!

WOOOOW. Awesome NM guys, well done

Grats on PB's Very good speeds indeed:-)

Fantastic speeds guys!

Holly snapping duck poop, bloody ripper miles Sammy and Harden, mobs of congrats guys 

Top speeds all round team 

Huuuuuuge Sammy. A+

Hardie your proof that you may never stop improving. Massive congrats mate

Elmo that is a great Alpha, well done on a well deserved PB. Not an easy thing to achieve after 25000kms

Elmo, Your Gybing has looked great this season and I'm not suprised you've PB'd and I think thats one area you've got plenty of PB's to come, congrats, I wont make any comment about how you've destroyed me in the alpha category this season

PS. Thanx for all the positive comments, it was one of those days when for about an hr the conditions were absolutely perfect, and I for once was in the right spot at the right time, I can garauntee that amyone that had've tried for an NM in that hr would've got a PB, I think the big boyz would've got close to a 40kt NM.  I've never experienced a feeling like that before of going so fast for so long, and getting faster as the run bears off to the wind more, my best feeling in windsurf ever, and thats 35yrs of pretty sensational windsurfing

I've checked Elmo's alpha, and as he says the number of sats drops below 5 for 2 samples. This is below the filter threshold of KA72 and GPSResults, so they don't allow it. However the latest GPSARPro and an older version of realspeed does allow it. As Alby says there are no spikes or glitches and two low accuracy samples aren't going to affect the result by any great amount.

Wow, 39 peaks and 37 Nms. 10 out of 10 for you 2 absolutely incredible!, absolutely.

Nice corner PB Alby, congrats mate 

Cracking corner Alby, well done on the PB

A PB is a PB, good one Alby