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Coodanup, WA, AU

Fun in sun with Boz and Richo. Had a few nice runs in the bay and then made a pit stop to put on some sunscreen.  Walked into the pond and the wind backed off so spent some time heading upwind to the top of the speed run. A nice squall came over, so I made a quick boom height adjustment and thought “this is it, gust of the day!”. Boz was ahead of the squall, and I was in the perfect position when the boom clamp popped open and wham! a slam sandwich with extra mustard. I obviously didn't close the boom clamp all the way, so the gust was wasted. I figured I was lucky to not have injured myself so called it.

AV 62, SV M4 7.0, Tribal WSP 27 

Coodanup, WA, AU

good sesh with Boz and Scott. Nice to have some sun out.

98ltr  6.9 R/Blade  27WS

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Yunderup.   Some reason can't upload to KA72 (maybe file size?) so manual entry. (data from 2 DIY GPS units fine on GPSSpeedreader and GPSAR with snapshot as evidence).   Forecast was 22+ knots all day and lots of rain.  Reality was a lot less wind but sunshine.   Started on the big gear and cruised around for 30km or so before became over cooked.  Rigged smaller and went out and of course wind dropped off so back to the big gear...a couple of laps and again overcooked so back to small gear.   Thankfully wind stayed this time and got another 80km in near perfect conditions.  In what felt was my best Alpha attempt I gybed to find a big flock of Pelicans had landed just behind me and now directly in the firing line.   Not sure who was most surprised.    The wicked wind witch Windxtasy arrived in a giant squall and then the wind promptly died.  Back to big gear and was a struggle even with that to keep moving.  Another 10km then again overcooked so back to the small gear. Managed to hit a giant weedburg at full power on the big gear and stopped dead with nice catapault...almost called it at that point.   Wind held, the last 10km the wind really booted in and was totally overdone but couldn't be bothered to change down.  iSonic 117, 8.6 SvT, FF28 and iSonic 97, 7.0 KAR, FF22

Yunderup 85 Sonic 6.4K 22FF

Today was the first time I have ever sailed Yunderup when it wasn't freezing cold, bucketing rain and very gloomy. It was lovely to sail in the sunshine. I may even have a touch of sunburn. Very nice overall for a winter session. As Flex said, the wind died when I came out, I had a few good runs then was averaging about 4 kn. I was just about to come in and hop onto Flex' gear ( he had changed up soon after I arrived) when a new squall arrived and I was powered up again. Tried valiantly but couldn't get over 27 kn. Spent most of the afternoon trying to improve my 5 X 10. The nm was upwind as I was trying to pass the headlands to get the distance.

36km is a big session for me, and is the furthest I have sailed since Albany in February.

Good to see Flex powering away and doing so well in the up and down conditions.