Coal Point, NSW, AU. Fanatic 900 foil 4.8 Hucker. Well that was scary. First time out on the Fanatic foil, completely different to the Naish, way more lift despite being 250cm less in area. First go I got completely airborne. Moved the foil mast all the way back, footstraps all the way forward, flattened the sail and went back out, much better but still a bit scary in the stronger up and down nor easter. Heaps out.

Belmont Bay (Slipways), NSW, AU

Pleasant fin slalom sail, 8.4 136 44 fin

16 - 18knts 

2 categories

Gosford, NSW, AU 

Slow start but eventually came in nicely. 

Marmong Point, NSW, AU

Exocet RF91, TR8 8.4, Starboard Race 1000 - Wind ENE 8-14 knots

Beautiful foiling conditions at Marmong.   Heaps of people out - all the gang were there apart from Bruce and Tibor, see you guys in a few weeks.

6 categories

Sunshine, NSW, AU

starboard 900 and 115 plus coarse racing gear, duotone 8.9, falcon foil

started very light where I left but then got windy when I got out of the shadow of pullbar.

 would have gone on slalom if I had known.

was very lite up wow havnt been on coarse gear for a while it just tries to rip your arms off you have to tell it who is boss because it wants to own you.

did I mention I traveled up the lake and back.

Marmong Point, NSW, AU

Nice E/N/E at Marmong today, some of the early birds went out early with big gear and were way overdone when it picked up , 10-15 knots.

HWR , Severne HGO 8m , SB Al Race+ 800 , -1 stab shim. Nicely powered/comfortable set up for the conditions.

Coal Point, NSW, AU

Stingray, Whisperer, 5.8

Short late sail with Nic. Loads of others out

Coal Point, NSW, AU

Carbonart 110L, retro 6.5m

Gosford, NSW, AU

Slow start but the old man upstairs gave us another chance and blew in a few extra knots. Very pleasant arvo with Mike,Bruce, Paul and Norm

 We have a good enthusiastic little gang here.

Marmong Point, NSW, AU

6M foil glide mistral compertion sst

rigged the sail for the forcast and rode the board for the conditions

thats was nearly too much fun

thought about swapping to the foil but i was passing them in the light stuff

longest time ive spent on the water in one session for years

i will be riding the old girl a lot more now soo much fun

10-20kts E lumpy as Coal Point, NSW, AU

 7.5m Turbo- Windtech 64 ( 112ltres) - 35 tectonics weed demon - 1 run

7m Turbo - Windtech 57 ( 90 ltres) - 28cm WT weedy

 then 5.7m gator WT57 - 28

I spent more time rigging than sailing and was struggling with no energy when I was. If this was a typical session I'd give it away..

 I'm struggling to get sailing fitness back after the extended time off the water and my internal wind guage is right off. I knew it was probably getting to the upper end of the big gear but we didn't think it was going to come in so I rigged big. Ugh.. The board felt like an aircraft carrier , the sail heavy and I was finding it hard to go off the wind in the chop on the way back. Exhausting..

I only got 22.5kts but I was glad to get back in one piece.

 I rerigged 7m - 90. I was doing short runs out into the worst of the lumps to practice gybing but soon gave up on perfection and was just happy to get dry gybes. It didn't help that I muffed one and ended up under the sail and only just got out before I drowned .. I was draining water from orifices for ages after..

 The board felt too fast for the chop and too much wind so unrig and rerig the 5.7m.

 Of course by now it had died and the 7m would have been good.. The 5.7m was SO light and perfect in the strong gusts.. pity there were only 2 x 100m of them..

 I've got another mast on order so then I'll be able to have the 7m ( gusting up to c19/20kts )  and the 5.7m ( gusting 18-22kts ) rigged and swap between them.

 I'd blame old age but Gert and Lajos ran rings around me today and are more than 10 years older.. zzzz

 I don't think I've fully recovered from being caught out in the S on Tuesday ..

 Heaps out- foiling Andrew , Tony , with a cameo appearance by Byron, plus 2 other young windfoilers . Several wingdings. Nic , Gert , Lajos and I on the fins.

A few happy shots - It was windier than this earlier.

 They were towing 2 foilers..

Marmong Point, NSW, AU

Sb 159 SS i 84 wing, Ezzy 8.1 m (for 10 minutes then changed down to ezzy 6.0) NE 10-15 knts.

Next time will wait for wind / potential before rigging.