Your'e a braver man than I am Gunga Din

Well done for effort and  a second best 2 sec and 5X Flex.

I look forward to the video. It is so good to have an on the spot reporter.

Yay Woody! Congratulations on two very big PBs. 43+. Wow! A big jump in speed. It had to come soon and I am not suprised today was the day. Congratulations on consisitent speed and your repeated dedication to getting the best numbers you can.

Can't wait for Ant's post. He has to have smashed that 40 2 sec today!

Congrats Woody your the fastest Pinna ever now:) Well deserved you've been aiming for this for a while.

Congrats Woody!    Took some serious effort to hang on in that stuff.   Didn't look like Antman was stopping anytime soon so might be a while before he posts.

Sensational Woody and well deserved. You've definately found another gear and I can't wait to see what happens when you find your top gear.

Welcome back, Flatchat, and good to see Boz getting in a high wind sail at last. I am sure your support and enthusiasm gave the others a boost.

Epic. Well done.

Nice pbs 😎

Great stuff guys, fantastic PBs Mark

Terrific team performance Pinnas, just being out in those brutal conditions is an achievement   
class effort from you today Woody, mega congrats on your PBs 😎 

geez Ant, hurry up and post!

Is Ant still out there? Is he going for distance as well?

Congrats Mark and Ant on the top effort and awsome PB's guys

Well done everyone and especially Ant and Mark for those awesome PBs

Smashed it Ant! Well done.  Sorry we abandonded you

Congratulations on you joining the 40's club Ant. It was done with style!

Woody, the stuff of legends mate. 

Congrats to all that sailed the pond today. 

Fantastic PBs Ant, congrats on smashing 40

Whoo Hoo Ant! You have smashed past 40 and 41 in one big step!  HUGE PBs and well deserved. I felt fairly sure you would do it today.  A super alpha as well. You were on fire! Congratulations!!!

77 km - you must have been having fun!

42 + 2sec & 39+ 5X. chase that, Bogans!

A pinch & a punch for the first day of the month!  Great sessions alround & Awesome PB's guys!!  Congratulations!!! 

Well done on those PB's, fantastic! 

Whoah Awesome! Respect to you for braving the conditions. Well Done!

Well deserved Ant. Great pair of PBs and cracking the 40 & 41+ club. Your traning camp with Woody is working for both of you. Bloody good alpha too, for those conditions.

Ant I'd like to officially welcome you to the 40kt Club Woody I'd like to officially congratulate you on becoming a member of the 43kt Club  WoofuckingHoo to both of you

Huge congratulations Ant and Woody!

Looks like a memorable day for anybody brave enough to be out. 

Fantastic Ant a 2 knot step at those speeds is a huge jump, what a way to start the month!

Big congrats Mark and antman! The hard work and perseverance pays off.  

Great Pbs guys 

Top effort guys (all you lot). That was pretty wild out there today when the wind booted. Mark- I've been watching your committment at this game for a while and hats off to you. In the biggest squalls he was giving it a solid crack while we were all waiting for it to drop a bit. Top effort. More knots will come and thats what it takes to push to the next level. Ant you looked really comfy today. Stoked you got sold PBs but the better news is theres heaps more to come in some better conditions. And we will get them! The angle was a bit too square so the only way to go fast was waiting for a bullet and chasing it out into the chop, or hanging on to the last bit of the curve and hoping the wind would fill in there (for a very short run). With a bit more west in the wind it would certainly have been faster for everyone since we could have maxed it out behind the straight part of the bar. So top effort in what were far from ideal conditions (but windy). Pretty sure though it was flatter than Melville ever gets :)

Great speeds and excellent PBs. 

All six Pinnaroos deserve bravery medals for just being out there at the Pond in those nasty, yet crucial conditions for what you like doing.  I watched the Laser sailing on Ch7 and everyone was cheering at the 6 knot winning average today.  I might suggest Ch7 attends at Woody and Ants (and Slowboats) next gale force sessions.  Really staggering speeds at a spot which on it's day will deliver more as Chris has described.  Ants Alpha deserves special mention....how do you do that when it's that windy?  Poor wifey was quite sick today so no attendance from me but her malaise probably saved my life.

Just a thought but are you very brave, speedy young men posting on gps speedsaiiing as well.  I know Chris does.

Awesome sesh lads, & great PBs Ant & Woody 

I might have to check out this 'Chook Pond', I'm overdue a big speed sesh 

The editting was as brutal as the conditions yesterday but here is video of yesterdays session in the pond.   Appologies to Jonski and Scud for not making it onto the video as I left as you arrived.   I almost got Stretch's crash on video...can just see the splash on edge of screen (it was with my old gopro which I took as backup so the quality isn't the same as rest of video).   There is an annoying piece of yellow string in the 360 footage which is the end of the knot of the camera leash in the FOV which I failed to cut off.  My new  3D printed anti tilt mount worked a treat as got no camera movement during whole session (keeping the pole invisible).      I had Jan Heynen's DIY GPS mounted on back of helmet which you can view my realtime speed on in the 360 footage, and my best stats when I'm not moving (not that my speed is very impressive compared to the others).   Congrats again to Antman and Woody for some epic PB's.

https://youtu.be/pAwkouoR6J4 

Fantastic video! Boy it must have been rough in the squalls to show up like that .I  know how much the go pro's flatten the chop.

Congratulations! Terrific effort. 

Great stuff Mark -fantastic PBs ..!!

Have to say I'm super happy for you Ant & Mark, ripper PB's, great session by all 

Great video Flex, with a nice touch of humour 😁👍

Thanks for the video Flex!

I love the bit about Ant going on about something... and OF COURSE WE WANT TO SEE WOODY'S FULL RUN!

Lovely edit, you made it look very inviting and exciting. Looks like you had a lot more sun down there that we had up here, and it looks so flat in the lee of those banks!

and if you were doing 32 without bearing away you could have done 36 if you did... assuming you could hold it together of course...

thanks Anita and all, if it wasn't clear in the video for Woody's PB run, there's a link at the top of screen at the time stamp I mention it that will take you to Woody's video of his run.  Link to his video is also in his original post above.   I couldn't fit his run in my video..I had nearly 3hrs of footage so there is tons of good stuff that didn't make the cut.  Here's a snap shot of a jewel moment.   (Antman is the sailor in distance)

NICE sailing guys  well done , that's fast in the chop!!

GREAT VIDEO GUYS

Good video Flex. 

Love the video Flex, you got me frothing for a sesh down there!