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Liptons bit of fun best speed at Point Grey when wind was more westerly. Simmer 3XS 96/62 TR16 6.3m Pepefoil 23 hybrid  variable rake

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Got to Liptons early to give my Bro in law another go on Waricles bigger board. That worked OK.

But I had a disastrous start, everything went wrong that good go wrong.

First time I've spat the dummy in ages! Every thing went wrong, didn't have the GW60 charger cable so couldn't turn it on, (mode button no longer works).

Had a half reasonable sail, but the 6.6 was very hard to rotate, It's never done that to me before, it always rotates nicely

Down rigged went home for lunch, came back with smaller gear. anemometer said 20 ave 26 gust, so rigged the 5.2 on the 47 with 17cm deltoid, and went to play in liptons. Wind wasn't getting into the smooth. Wasn't game to sail to Pt Grey with the little board, didn't trust the wind. Fastest run was the first, wind steadily died off, should have rigged the 5.7. But it was nice to be sailing around in relative smooth.

Fangyland. Party Barge (Xantos 310)  Avalon 7.0. FF18V4.  Overpowered but had a hoot on the first outing with the V4 - fin was the duck's nuts. Close to a PB on the Barge I would reckon too. Post more later.

 I launched from The Hook because the tide was still on the high side and I couldn’t be bothered driving all the way down the far end to Nairns. It doubles my driving time and you know, sometimes that extra 500m is just too far. 

Plan A was to chuck in the Barge and give my new FF18V4 a spin. I thought the marriage of the fin with the Barge and 7.0 would be the ultimate test of the top end of the fin and its load carrying ability. Not expecting much, I was just going to do a couple of runs and then come in and change to my FF22.

 On the run out from The Hook, I chucked out Plan A and went to Plan Lazy, which to be fair, is my default setting.

So I stayed out for the majority of the session on the Barge until it simply was too windy to hold on. I came in and whacked on the WT Cruise, but by now all my momentum muscle couldn’t hold down the 7.0 and kept getting lifted.

The take home though was, I am super stoked with the fin. Holding 120kegs of Bargearse and Barge with 18cm of fin and bugger all foil thickness is no mean feat. It’s upwind performance was better than expected from such a small foil, it only spun out when I intentionally pushed hard uphill off chop crests and was slippery AF downhill without a hint of mischief. I aimed it at every burg and thick weedy patch and it slipped through like the proverbial hot knife in butter. I cannot wait to set it up on a smaller board and sail combo and really point the toes to see what it can do.

It has been a while, but defo a Top Ten Fangy Day:-)