Pinnaroos (WA, Australia) - 2019-12-29
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Boz
40.413(D)
37.901(D)
10.24(D)
23.646(D)
26.195(D)
41.88(D)
Woody-Mark
37.623(D)
33.652(D)
6.927(D)
13.213(D)
24.365(D)
23.739(D)
Pointman
Chris Porter
Jeff
paddymac
JC2
Windxtasy
Jemma
scarrgo
Jonah
Windtech
Ricey
Bunyip
AC1
Hooksey
Lunny
tailwind
Flatchat
Snickers
Kenny
Pacey
SRS73
AndreaMunich
Gloria
Reg
Topcat
Clue Thirst
The Shroom
fingers
Finback
Peanut
Average39.0235.788.5818.4325.2832.81
Boz (39135km):
1552 days ago
3 categories

Albany, WA, AU

Recon Mission to see if Big Sunday at Albanwesterlie would work, sure doesLaughing Great company with Mark as partner in crime for the recon mission, Steve and Shane joined us for the fun, lucky as well due to another one of my booms going to the trash heap. Probably about 400 of the carpark area just as I fininished a 39knot run the boom broke just as I stopped the board. Bit of a walk to the shore and Steve graciously loaned me one of his carbon boom. Well that made a differance to the Ali 40.4 on the dial happy days.

Westerlies do work at Lilacs just need a lot of wind and play 100-200m off the shore line, yes choppy but today the bottom end towards Albany was out of play, shortage of water, don't believe the storm surge data it was saying .6 to .7 more like .2 today.

Massive bullets coming through could have and should have made more of the conditions, but was buggered from the walk after the boom failure and only did a couple of runs till i called it quits. Did not want to damage another boom or myself, wind solid 25 in the middle some lulls but the bullets 30-40 as Mark would tell you with the mast hitting his head when a squall came through, lucky he wears a helmet.

Started with the 6.3 and Delta, the delta lasted half a run changed to the trusty 22 45 Vector WS solid, sail too big for the squalls only pulling 36 in the runs, changed down to 5.5 and straight of the bat 38, improved for there the rest is history.

Would I do a westerlie at Lilacs again HELL YESSealed  Strop you'll love it, you would be in your element, needed a bit more water on the bottom end potential is there for some high numbers, today I just didn't make the most off it but was a nice taste.

Manta 54 KAR 6.3 KAR 5.5 Vector 22 WS



Woody-Mark (14748km):
1552 days ago
6 categories

Albany, WA, AU

Curiosity satisfied. Ever since sailing at Lilacs in the normal SE I wondered what it would be like on a Westerly. Well, it's a place of potential if the elements come together but only for the pentential of speed, nothing else in my opinion. There are no Naughtys, Alphas, Distance as you would expect in the SE wind. I opted to sail from the kiters end reasonalby close to the carpart and sail as shallow as possible back towards the normal windsurfing rigging carpark. However, the tide was so low that even the Delta fin was prohibited to work as normal. In addition, the gusts where huge 40+ but then 10knots or less all within 100m. Trying to sail again in the same spot requires at lease a tide of .6+. This would allow to sail close to the bank without weed drag and continue past the rigging carpark hopefully with a second or third gust to get max speed. The tide was approx .2 Boz and I thought. The storm surge data wasn't at all accurate which idicated .7. Boz and Evets had the right idea sailing closer to the middle out of the real flat but where there were more than single gusts. Cudos to them for having the smarts today.  Anyway tried the Manta 61 and Vapor 6.4 CL Delta 18 first and decided to try the 59 with the 5.6 Vapor. Not much difference in speeds between the two setups as the main influence was the single short gusts in close.

So either sail with a delta fin close to the bank with higher water to allow the North end of to be sailed which today was virtually unsailable or sail in the middle with a 21+ wp fin. Check what fin Boz used today. The naughty past the carpark was in thick weed with a nice walk back. Worth mentioning, helmets are worth their weight in strong gusty conditions as I got smashed repeatedly on the head by the mast whilst standing waiitng for a gust. It came from a slightly different direction at 40+knots so glad I was wearing a helmet which was swapped from the normal hat earlier. Overal, lilacs on a W is worth experiencing but has nothing on a decent SE. As usual, great company at Lilacs with the locals Shane and Evets and a top trip with Boz who excelled today.

This is how low the tide was at Lilacs. Boz with his pb too.

 



Comments
STROPPO


WA
Australia
1552 days ago
Yeah Welldone Nick on the pb great story aswell 😎
Windxtasy


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Good reward for another big effort Boz. Congratultions on the PB. You are a trailblazer and managed to enthuse the locals too.

Looking forward to Mark's numbers. I guess he is still driving home.

That westerly would have been blowing water out of the bay on that side, hence the lower than expected tide

Kenny


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Boz, Congrats on the PB and a successful expedition.

Woody-Mark


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Well done Boz, top effort today with another pb. Great fun trip.Laughing

Snickers


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Another PB Boz! Well done, glad you were rewarded for your efforts. I'm guessing Vancouver beach would have been too choppy or too shallow?

STROPPO


WA
Australia
1552 days ago
Nice one Mark great read 😎
Boz


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Ben Mark did a recon of vancouver. really shallow for a ways out, would have been a bit of a walk. If you don't mind going over the back of chop Lilacs is okay, but you do have to have your witts about you, could have been some nasty crashes in the conditions today.

Snickers


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Another successful road trip Woody, getting good speed in what sounded like tough going. 

Kenny


WA
Australia
1552 days ago

Improved the 2 sec for the month. great work guys. 

Flatchat


WA
Australia
1552 days ago
Nailed it Boz. 40+ And a PB too. Well done. Sounds like quite an adventure Mark. I can see you boys moving to Albartartica soon.
Windxtasy


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Well done, guys, on taking the risk on a westerly and the long drive to improve your scores and the team scores further.

It sounds like there was plenty of wind but the conditions were less than ideal.

Boz, Lunny and Woody #1,2 & 3 for December in the GPSTC, internationally. Phenomenal.

No wonder the team is in such a strong position.

Boz


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Some data on the wind direction, most runs where on the westerly, best run where between 2:30 and 3 pm, once it swung to WSW became intersting in the bearaway as the wind was shifting. Some bullets through the arvo at Lilacs easy 40knts as these readings are from the airport which is a ways off from Lilacs.

 

Maree Jordan


NSW
Australia
1551 days ago
Congrats on pb Boz
Lunny


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Well done Fellas. Good read and glad you gave it a crack.

Stretch


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Nice work Boz and Mark... again!!Cool Glad you survived the crack to the head Mark. Same thing happened to me at Australind this year, but I scored a broken nose out of it (I was wearing my helmet)

Boz


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Oh I should thank Hardie, did you know that 54 Manta is a sweet boardWinkLaughing

Firiebob


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Well done guys, nice speeds, write ups, another adventure and a Pb, top 10 for sure Cool

evets


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

Nice going Boz, you were flying across the chop in far less than ideal conditions.

I have been trying to think how to explain it to non windsurfers:

Imagine that you are on a skateboard, holding onto a ski rope and being towed across a ploughed paddock by a drunk driver in a V8 ute.

When you are doing 50kmh the driver thinks it is funny to put his flat to the floor for 5 seconds, then as you hit 60kmh he just coasts for a while. then floors it again.

Repeat, repeat.

If you 'catch an edge' you will land on the boom which is as much fun as being hit in the chest with an iron bar.

When you are stationary and trying to start the driver does not move. Then he floors it again and rips the tow rope out of your hands.

And this is all fun!

Morts


WA
Australia
1551 days ago

 

^^^ Thst description sounds like your normal Friday night shenanigans Steve Tongue out

 

Congrats on the PB Boz, soulds like it was hard earned, as one boom will attest to!

 

Nice back up as well Woody.