Another early morning foil mission on the Swan.

I rigged in green arrows, but launched to yellow, so I was a bit underdone on the 800 wing + 7.0 M3 combo.

Still managed to find a few nice puffs, and had a lovely cruise. 

No unforeseen groundings today, the ENE direction kept me well away from the freeway side of the river. 

Albany, WA, AU M47, 5m Koncept, 16 Tribal delta, then sonic 85 with same rig and fin

I probably missed the best of the wind today while I was having a recovery nap. By the time I got on the water the wind was gusty and much weaker than yesterday. I would have been happy with a 34 today but could only get 32s. I spent quite a bit of time making tuning adjustments, - mostly to harness lines - I was over sheeting. I think I would have gone faster yesterday had I realised that then.

As I was making no progress with speed I thought I would come in and change to a bigger board for some alpha practice. Did the wind pick up while I was off the water? Certainly seemed like it, and Ronnie scored a 38 while I was changing boards. Bad timing!

My board turned so fast on the first gybe it caught me quite by surprise and I missed catching the sail. second attempt was the PB gybe. Still plenty of room for improvement. The next alpha was a 17 and then the wind dropped right off, so much so that we thought we would have to walk the boards back. Ronnie couldn't get his going at all, and this was only 15 minutes after scoring a 38! I decided to call it quits at that point as my legs were feeling fatigues anyway - it is most unusual for me to sail two days in a row but my body felt pretty good.

Whoo hoo an alpha PB - the last was Jan 2019. I am back!

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Albany, WA, AU

The last 1.5 hr session before the 400k drive home. Not as windy as yesterday but a blast anyway. Falcon 56 evo 5.8

Albany, WA, AU. Quick warm down session before the long drive.   Went out on 7.0...shoulda gone bigger as wind all over the place, same as yesterday.

Albany, WA

Nice little session at Lilacs before the long drive back to the big smoke. No PBs today regrettably but can't complain after the trifecta I scored yesterday. Hope Ant got some good runs in after I left. Great couple of days down there and great bunch of enthusiastic sailors to hang out with. Thanks Jim for the spin in the Tesla. Wow!!  I'll be sure to bring my G-Suit next time!! 

Good breakfast too Woody at Kates place in town. A nice way to start the day and ponder the meaning of life!! Catch you all another time.

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Albany, WA, AU

Another fun day with the boyz at speed central .Best run with a 40 peak was coming in to say goodbye to Woody and Boz :/ many hors after could not get anywhere near it :/ The 2nd still alludes me at Lilacs,,next time..Powerd by the 6.2 NX 53 Patrick,16 Delta.,,,,,,Rondog was smashing it on the Robbie Radis special and now his 100 Monster is retired you can expect some big numbers from him ;)

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Albany, WA, AU

Wind down with the die hards, fun little session for a minute we thought as we where packing up it was going to be better than yesterday, pity we had to go but always next time

Manta 54 Mistral 47 KAR 5.7

The day after the day before!