Liptons short after work sail, bit of fun

went for an hour today to improve my 78 yr old ranking, I achieved that, but could have done better if I hadn't sutuffed a couple of gybes, fin spun outon one and rehooked on another.

Started with the 55cm board, 19cm@55 fin and 5.7speed.

Not a bad combo for the hr, but wind was light on the western side, so I gave up the first attempt and had lunch, wind had picked up enough after lunch so only had 2 gybes I had to pump out of.

Harness lines were a fraction out and my arms started to pump up, I didn't get then right until I finished the hr. New firmware on the esp32 is great, I set the speed screen for alphas and hours, so as soon as the hr stopped increasing it was time to stop.

Came in for a coffee and chnged to the 48cm board with 17cm starboard assy, expecting a nice increase in speed, but I couldn't find  a decent gust in flat water, on starboard tack.

Pain wasn't worth the results, so called it. Wind promptly swung more southerly and picked up a notch, so there could be some decent numbers later.

Top runs are the hour, bottom group, looking for speed, I think I was in the wrong spot.

Fangyland with Scud, Flex and Anita plus a few others. High tide, nice breeze, just a beaut day for a splash around the paddocks.  Had a fab stack at 30 knots that knocked the stuffing out of me for a bit . I was heading downhill at a reasonable clip and got into some slightly choppier stuff and ever so slightly dug into the back of the chop in front. The board slowed at tad, but I didn't. My back foot pulled out of my bootie and I continued on a slow motion catapult around the handle bars that seemed to last forever. No damage to me or the gear and I found my bootie happily floating away a few minutes later.

AtomicFangy150, Avalon 7.0 FF28,